Scientific curiosity

Our long overdue comeback post is on a wonderful book titled "Moonwalking with Einstein" written by Joshua Foer. The book is desc...

A physicist’s view of collective transport in biological systems Let me motivate what I want to say today with a couple of videos. Firs...

Let us begin by doing a Gedanken experiment. Or you could literally do it if you have the ingredients. Imagine a ring made of some thin wir...

In the previous post , we tried to answer the question “What is dark matter?” In this post, in the same reductionist spirit, we try to answe...

I am a condensed matter theorist. So, I know next to nothing about gravity or cosmology. But, this week, I attended a few Cosmology seminars...

Structures of proteins: In all modern day organisms, proteins play a wide variety of roles in the cell. At the molecular level, they are re...

In this post, what I would like to do is illustrate scientific methodology and scientific curiosity in the context of the simple natural phe...