Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, (Retired) Professor & Head Physics, and Dean, Faculty of Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. The coveted 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences jointly to Dr John B. Goodenough and Dr M. Stanley Whittingham (both  of  USA) and Dr Akira Yoshino (of  Japan),…

Dr Surjit Singh Bhatti, ( Retired) Professor & Head Physics Dean, Faculty of Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India Copyright ( Smithsonian Magazine )    Three scientists, James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have been awarded the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize ( £ 740,000 ) for “ground-breaking” discoveries about the Universe. Peebles has done…

Do we  really  understand BLOCKCHAINS  and  BITCOINS  ? Conventional recordings of data in multiple ledgers are slow and inefficient which can be altered retroactively and are often unverifiable. The same data may be recorded differently by various agencies, such as banks, customers, regulators or auditors. Block-Chain (BC)   technology employs shared ledgers or computer blocks where…

The name Black Holes (BH) was given to dying stars at the end of their life or to the residual matter after the collision of two stars, by an American scientist, John Wheeler, at New York in 1967. Interestingly, there is nothing black about them and, in fact, BH are invisible. These represent un-imaginably huge…

The recent passing away of Stephen Hawking has rekindled interest in one of his theories about extra-terrestrial life, based on the insight about tiny particles in the first few seconds of creation of the universe following the Big Bang, about 13.5 billion years ago. These strange sub-atomic constituents are capable of being present at many…

With thousands of tons of carbon dioxide and other green–house gases being pumped into our environment every day, global temperature is increasing faster (between 20C to 50C per century) than predicted by scientists. Yet we are faced with bone-chilling winters in the North America, pointing to an upside down situation. There have been extremely cold…

It is distressing to observe that today some nations are at perpetual war, many provinces within many countries are at loggers head and several communities have not been able to overcome their traditional, irrational hatred for others even within their own religious and family domains. It may not be widely known that among all humans…

Why is it that the same medicine does not suit all similar patients ? Some are cured while many others  either do not respond or even get worse. Many adverse drug reactions are, in fact,  never reported The reason , it is found, is that all patients suffering from the same ailment, do not have…