Everyday, there are newspaper stories related to pharmaceuticals, energy needs, and the environment. Articles that may seem political at first glance are actually related to science and the environment. As a result, there is a need for citizens to be scientifically literate to participate in the civic issues of the society and take informed decisions to improve their quality of life. […]
Science is different from the other ways of knowing. There are various hierarchical divisions within science but all these disciplines of are integrated in nature. […]
The SETI Institute’s task is the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. The search is focused in a narrow spectrum which we assume intelligent beings would use. […]
Detecting exoplanets cannot be done directly, so scientists look for gravitational wobbles and planetary transit clues to find them. […]
The portrayals of alien life in fiction – both novels and film – tend to come in four varieties: aggressive, exploratory, cooperative, and transcendental. […]
The notion of ‘homo economicus’ was an idealization. Modern psychology has shown that often we make decisions based on completely non-rational bases. […]
British economist John Maynard Keynes argued that there are multiple possible equilibrium points and it’s possible for the economy to become stuck around one of these undesirable points. […]
In classical economics, the idea was that we ought to be able to model the flow of money in the marketplace on our vision of energy flowing in a physical system. […]
New technologies are being explored to propel satellites even faster and to help protect future human explorers from the vagaries of space. […]
New types of telescopes and spacecraft will help us gather better and more detailed knowledge of the solar system. […]
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