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".
Richard Dawkins - The Enemies Of Reason - Episode 1 - Slaves to Superstition
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
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 - Press Release
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
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release
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
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.
My Brilliant Brain: Make Me A Genius (Episode 1)
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.
Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science
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.
Curiosity with Stephen Hawking, Did God Create the Universe?
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.
It is about more than just getting straight As
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.
Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know
Before Marie Curie, these women dedicated their lives to science and made significant advances