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    Einstein’s century
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-01-02) Frontline
    On Albert Einstein's legacy, in the World Year of Physics 2005, a hundred years after he initiated a revolutionary turn away from classical physics with his seminal papers. Excerpts from the article by T. JAYARAMAN for the May 20, 2005, issue.
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    Rapid strides
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-01-15) Ramchandran, R.
    The past 25 years have seen spectacular developments in almost all areas of science and technology. Some of the scientific terms and phrases that are commonplace today are the result of achievements made since the mid-1980s.
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    Millions of tonnes of ice on the moon
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-03-13) Subramanian, T. S.
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    Beaming success
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-06-16) Ramchandran, R.
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    Man for Mars
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-08-28) Bandyopadhay, Amalendu
    The European Space Agency and Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems plan to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars.
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    Beyond Ramanujan
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-09-11) Ramchandran, R.
    The aura of Srinivasa Ramanujan, perhaps one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, has virtually eclipsed other Indian mathematicians.
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    Moon mystery
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-09-25) Ramchandran, R.
    Chandrayaan-1 has come up with a startling discovery on the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on the sunlit side of the moon.
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    Wonder material
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-11-06) Ramchandran, R.
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”.
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    Vanishing sunspots
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2010-12-04) Nath, B. B.
    A solar storm brings hope to scientists who were worried about the lack of sunspots and the consequences of this for the earth.
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    Mirror to space
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-02-26) Bandyopadhay, Amalendu
    In the 20 years of its functioning, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed hitherto unknown secrets.
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    Cosmic link
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-03-12) Ramchandran, R.
    Scientists argue that cloud formation modulated by galactic cosmic rays has an impact on climate change.
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    Gentle giant
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-04-23) Ramchandran, R.
    John Willard Milnor, the wizard of higher dimensions, gets the Abel Prize, which is regarded as the “Mathematician's Nobel”.
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    Mercury up close
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-06-04) Bandyopadhay, Amalendu
    When MESSENGER, launched by NASA, began orbiting Mercury on March 18, it became the first spacecraft to do so.
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    Cosmic crash
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-07-02) Ramchandran, R.
    Evidence of a gamma-ray burst picked up by a NASA spacecraft has scientists wondering what mighty cosmic event could have caused it.
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    Antimatter belt
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-08-27) Ramchandran, R.
    Antimatter technology has enormous potential because of the huge amount of energy released during the annihilation process.
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    Chasing supernovae
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-10-22) Ramchandran, R.
    The universe is expanding faster than ever before: this is what the research of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics concludes.
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    For a true picture
    (Hindu Group of Publication, 2011-11-04) Ramchandran, R.
    The use of Adaptive Optics and Robo-AO will go a long way in improving the performance of optical instruments such as telescopes.
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    Active Region Moss: Doppler Shifts from Hinode/EIS
    (2012-05-05) Tripathi, Durgesh; Mason, Helen E.; Klimchuk, James A.
    Studying the Doppler shifts and the temperature dependence of Doppler shifts in moss regions can help us understand the heating processes in the core of the ac- tive regions. In this paper we have used an active region observation recorded by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) onboard Hinode on 12-Dec- 2007 to measure the Doppler shifts in the moss regions. We have distinguished the moss regions from the rest of the active region by de ning a low density cut-o as derived by Tripathi et al. (2010). We have carried out a very careful analy- sis of the EIS wavelength calibration based on the method described in Young, O'Dwyer and Mason (2012). For spectral lines having maximum sensitivity be- tween log T = 5:85 and log T = 6:25 K, we nd that the velocity distribution peaks at around 0 km s􀀀1 with an estimated error of 4􀀀5 km s􀀀1. The width of the distribution decreases with temperature. The mean of the distribution shows a blue shift which increases with increasing temperature and the distribution also shows asymmetries towards blue-shift. Comparing these results with observables predicted from di erent coronal heating models, we nd that these results are consistent with both steady and impulsive heating scenarios. However, the fact that there are a signi cant number of pixels showing velocity amplitudes that exceed the uncertainty of 5 km s􀀀1 is suggestive of impulsive heating. Clearly, further observational constraints are needed to distinguish between these two heating scenarios.
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    Ten things you may not know about the Higgs boson
    (Hindu group of publacation, 2012-07-14)
    Peter higgs' best-known paper on the new particle was initially rejected. The hihggs mechanism explains only a small fraction of the mass in the universe
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    The Higgs hunt
    (Hindu group of publication, 2012-07-14) RAMACHANDRAN, R.
    CERN announces that the highly elusive Higgs boson had in all probability been discovered