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23/11/2011

Sydney Brenner won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2002. This is the Lecture He gave during Nobel Prize Ceremony. Now Available at Lyceum Academy. Price: 10 Rupees Only. Please Call at our number, or Leave a message on Wall, If you want to Buy it.

01/11/2011

Oxford University Professor, Richard Dawkins, points to some of science's achievements and describes it as freeing "most of us" from superstition and dogma. Picking up from his superstition-reason distinction in The Root of All Evil? (while recycling some footage from it), he then says reason is facing an "epidemic of superstition" that "impoverishes our culture" and introduces gurus that persuade us "to run away from reality". He calls the present day "dangerous times".

Dawkins points to some of science's achievements and describes it as freeing "most of us" from superstition and dogma. Picking up from his superstition-reaso...

07/10/2011

On This Day:
Niels Bohr (1885 – 1962) was born. A Physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of a team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.

05/10/2011

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Daniel Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals". Press info: http://bit.ly/pUtHkm

Nobelprize.org, The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

05/10/2011

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. Press release: http://bit.ly/mU5GIy

Nobelprize.org, The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

03/10/2011

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was divided, one half jointly to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity".

Nobelprize.org, Official web site of the Nobel Foundation

02/10/2011

What makes someone Genius ? is intelligence inherited or it can achieved by training ? Here is the story of world's first female grandmaster in Chess.

Susan Polgar is the world's first female chess grandmaster. But she wasn't born with a natural flair for the game, instead she trained for six hours every da...

30/09/2011

20 million volumes worth of information is inside the heads of every one of us.
The brain is a very big place in a very small space. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain We can change ourselves, Think of the possibilities. A Great Video, Must Watch.

mp3: http://symphonyofscience.com "Ode to the Brain" is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scient...

27/09/2011

Amazing documentary hosted by Stephen Hawking asking the key question so many people have wondered since the beginning of mankind, does a "god" exist?? Stephen Hawking disects the science of the universe in answering this very fundamental question.

Amazing documentary hosted by Stephen Hawking asking the key question so many people have wondered since the beginning of mankind, does a "god" or a "celesti...

25/09/2011

Something we all need to understand is that education is not all about grades. In fact, it has little to do with academic results and more to do with self-learning. By self-learning I mean going beyond textbooks, reading newspapers, books, watching movies and meeting new people, Writes Zoya Nazir in her new blog post.

Most people out there are so plagued by getting grades, they forget that the greatest minds did not achieve As.

24/09/2011

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. - Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

23/09/2011

When it comes to the topic of women in science, Marie Curie usually dominates the conversation. After all, she discovered two elements, was the first women to win a Nobel Prize, in 1903, and was the first person to win a second Nobel, in 1911. But Curie was not the first female scientist. Many other brilliant, dedicated and determined women have pursued science over the years.

Before Marie Curie, these women dedicated their lives to science and made significant advances