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A radar image of the Tiangong-1 space station taken at a height of about 270km above the Earth. The defunct Chinese space lab mostly burnt up during its re-entry to Earth and its remaining debris sank in the South Pacific Ocean. Photo: AFP

Fri, Apr 06 2018. 01 46 AM IST

The final plunge of a Heavenly Palace

The crash of Chinese space station Tiangong-1 back to Earth raises concerns over potential damage due to debris from other satellites as their orbits decay

In recent years, Stephen Hawking spoke often and eloquently about exploring space more urgently than we humans are now doing. Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

Thu, Mar 15 2018. 01 42 AM IST

Stephen Hawking: Open, curious, sharp till the end

Stephen Hawking may be gone, but his ideas will absolutely not disappear into the void

A praying mantis outfitted with shades for an experiment on how the brain reacts to 3D images.

Thu, Mar 01 2018. 11 40 PM IST

The praying mantis wears goggles

Researchers at Newcastle University have found that the predatory insect judges distance and depth based on the visual clues it gets from motion

A file photo of Garry Kasparov (left) playing against IBM supercomputer Deep Blue operated by IBM’s Joe Hoane in New York. Deep Blue made chess history when it defeated Kasparov, the first time a computer triumphed over a reigning world champion. Photo: Reuters

Fri, Feb 09 2018. 01 08 AM IST

Chess in that almost alien way

Chess program AlphaZero has shown that computers can learn. And that has some profound implications for artificial intelligence.

An artist’s impression of the interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua. AFP/European Southern Observatory

Fri, Jan 05 2018. 11 15 AM IST

Cigar from outer space

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence effort is valuable not so much because it might find an alien intelligence but because of all the scientific endeavours it stimulates

Give a mathematically-minded magician that little fact, and she’ll use it to invent any number of awe-inspiring card tricks. Photo: iStock

Fri, Dec 01 2017. 02 42 AM IST

The fixed point of it all

Fixed point theorems—vital tools for mathematicians—can seem esoteric, but fixed points actually crop up every now and then in unexpected places which you might not readily associate with mathematics

Gplot, or Hofstadter Butterfly, which depicts the energy levels of electrons in crystals when subjected to a magnetic field. Photo: Douglas Hofstadter/Wikimedia Commons

Fri, Nov 03 2017. 12 30 AM IST

One butterfly at a time

The book Butterfly in the Quantum World speaks loudest to a reader in its spirit, its scientific and mathematical curiosity, its willingness to be surprised at every turn.

Passengers caught in a stampede on the foot overbrige at Elphinstone Road railway station in Mumbai on 29 September. The accident claimed 23 lives and left 39 injured. Photo: PTI

Fri, Oct 06 2017. 02 28 AM IST

How Elphinstone Station stampede might have been averted

By its ability to decongest crowds, an off-centre column at the exit gate of the Elphinstone Station might have saved lives

Vi Hart and Nicky Case’s Parable of the Polygons is based on economist Thomas Schelling’s idea of ‘neighbourhood tipping’ in which an influx of ‘different’ people into a largely homogeneous area ‘causes the earlier residents to begin evacuating’.

Thu, Sep 07 2017. 06 06 AM IST

You stick with your triangles

The more prejudiced everyone in a community is, the harder it is for them to find a way to live among their own kind

An artist’s rendition of the Greek army holding off the Persian invasion. Photos: Alamy.

Fri, Sep 01 2017. 01 48 PM IST

At the “hot gates” of Thermopylae in Greece

Reliving a childhood fascination with tales of war at the battleground where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans made their famed last stand

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