Physikos

ISRO’s GSAT-6A launch today: All you need to know about the satellite With seven hours to go, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is doing its rounds of system checks before the satellite blasts off at 4:56pm from Sriharikota.

Physicist Stephen Hawking passes away at 76 Inside the shell of his increasingly useless body was a razor-sharp mind, fascinated by the nature of the universe, how it was formed and how it might end.

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Celebrating 125 years of the Physical Review #PhysRev125 Throughout 2018 APS is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Physical Review. To commemorate this milestone the editors present a selection of important articles.

On this day January 3, 1919 in Manchester, Ernest Rutherford split the atom or, more precisely, the nucleus by bombarding nitrogen atoms with α particles from bismuth. He caused the first artificial nuclear reaction and transmuted the nitrogen atoms into oxygen

Did you know Nikola Tesla was responsible for all these amazing inventions? Tesla's Death Ray: A Murder Declassified Premieres Tues at 10p💡

Happy Birthday to Satyendra Nath Bose !!!
In 1924 Bose sent a seminal paper to Einstein in which he derived Planck’s radiation formula without recourse to classical physics. He wrote a covering letter saying:-
Respected Sir, I have ventured to send you the accompanying article for your perusal and opinion. You will see that I have tried to deduce the coefficient .. in Planck's law independent of classical electrodynamics.
Einstein extended the paper’s concepts, signaling the creation of Bose-Einstein statistics.
Bose-Einstein statistics applies to particles like photons which don’t have half-integer spin. It underlines critical phenomena like lasers and superfluidity in liquid helium. It took until 1995 for Bose-Einstein condensation to be experimentally verified.

Sep 15th: Goodbye Cassini and thank you for your decades of exploration :) For more, check out:

Goodbye Cassini Hello Saturn 2017 [ BBC Horizon ]