NERD is a student-led initiative on Science Communication, started by IIT Kanpur aimed at promoting interest in and popularizing Science and Technology.
NERD - Notes on Engineering, Research and Development is a student-led initiative by students of IIT Kanpur to promote appreciation of Science and Technology through better better communication. The idea of NERD has been around for a long while but the actual formulation began in June 2007 and the work started in December 2007, with the first issue of the magazine coming out in June 2008. Lately,
08/04/2018
"Most of our scientists are so fossilized and rigid that they don’t allow non-members or innovators to survive. This must change."
They study galaxies, help predict landslides: Meet India’s citizen scientists Average people — school students, engineers, retired bankers — are helping gather data across the country, in fields as varied as astronomy and archaeology.
09/03/2018
Marie Curie, Ambulance Driver: The Trailblazing Scientist’s Little-Known Humanitarian Heroism and Her Life-Saving Mobile X-Ray Units How the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her brilliant teenage daughter set out to mend the ugliness of war with ingenuity and sheer human courage.
11/07/2017
A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook!!!
http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/index.html
23/06/2017
The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin’s Children Left All Over the Manuscript of ‘On the Origin of Species’ From fish with legs to carrot cavalries, an endearing testament to the human life of science.
17/06/2017
Kudos!
"IIT scientists present India's first 5G patent before global body"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/iit-scientists-present-indias-first-5g-tech-specification-before-a-global-body/articleshow/59183889.cms
IIT scientists present India's first 5G patent before global body - Times of India With India gearing up for the commercial roll out of 5G by 2020, scientists at IIT Hyderabad and Centre of Excellence in Wireless have tabled the country's first 5G patent before an international body that defines the global cellular radio standards for different generations of wireless network.
03/06/2017
IOE!
http://www.iitk.ac.in/nerd/web/technology/caught-in-the-web-the-internet-of-everything/ #.WSxBW16GntE
Caught in the web: The internet of everything The Internet of Everything, a superset of Internet of things, is a word that most of us have heard of …
20/05/2017
Need to rethink the paradigms of 'Practice of Science'!
Bit old but thought provoking:
"Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme within 3 Weeks"!!!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme within 3 Weeks The online game poses protein-folding puzzles, and participants provided insights recently that solved the structure of an enzyme involved in reproduction of HIV
10/05/2017
Stitching a Supernova: A Needlepoint Celebration of Science by Cecilia Payne, the First Person to Earn a Ph.D. in Astronomy “These moments are rare, and they come without warning… They are the ineffable reward of him who scans the face of Nature.”
08/05/2017
Why is crumpled paper so strong?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228441-700-scrunch-time-the-peculiar-physics-of-crumpled-paper/
Scrunch time: The peculiar physics of crumpled paper When you crumple up your gift-wrapping paper this year, you'll create a shape so complex that it has defeated the most sophisticated computers
25/04/2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzMQza8xZCc
NASA Live - Earth From Space LIVE Feed | Incredible ISS live stream of Earth from space Live video of Earth from space - as seen from the Nasa ISS live stream aboard the International Space Station. ----------------------------------------------...
23/04/2017
March for Science!
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/19/14331168/science-march-earth-day-route-livestream-signs-speakers
The March for Science: What is it, and what does it hope to accomplish? The Trump administration is cutting science budgets and denying research. Scientists are pushing back.