Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part III) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2021-01-162021-01-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Citizen Science: A Gift for Netizens Popular characters like Dexter or Johnny Test inspired many of us to become scientists. However, these cartoons engendered in our minds a perception that all scientists work in a lab. This is quite untrue. Today, if you are among the internet users that constitute 57% of the world population, then you can also become a […] Written by Sharon Elaine D’Souza 2020-12-222020-12-22 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part II) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2020-12-182020-12-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Technology Dark Web: The Internet’s Underworld Has it ever occurred to you that there might be another world beyond the world of the internet we know so well? Well, such a world does, in fact, exist. This is what we call the “dark web”. Written by Muhammad Ismail Khan 2020-12-122020-12-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part III) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2021-01-162021-01-19 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Citizen Science: A Gift for Netizens Popular characters like Dexter or Johnny Test inspired many of us to become scientists. However, these cartoons engendered in our minds a perception that all scientists work in a lab. This is quite untrue. Today, if you are among the internet users that constitute 57% of the world population, then you can also become a […] Written by Sharon Elaine D’Souza 2020-12-222020-12-22 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part II) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2020-12-182020-12-27 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza. Source: Wikimedia Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza. Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza. Source: Wikimedia Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza. Featured Nobel Prize 2020: How Roger Penrose Revolutionized Our Understanding of Black Holes (Part I) The main theme of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is black holes, and it has been awarded to Roger Penrose, Andrea Ghez, and Reinhard Genzel. The Nobel committee awarded half of it to Ghez and Genzel for their pioneering work in showing that there is a supermassive black hole at the centre of our […] Written by Abdul Afzal 2020-11-292020-12-04 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured How the Indian Subcontinent Shaped Modern Science The contributions of the subcontinent to modern-day science range from the value of pi to the foundation for modern-day astronomy i.e. the heliocentric theory. Great strides in modern medicine, mathematics, physics, and architecture are owed to the people of the subcontinent. Written by Rameen Fatima 2020-11-052020-11-07 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Ig Nobel Prize: When Science and Humor Collide The Ig Nobel Prizes began with the premise of awarding ideas that demanded recognition but would go unnoticed. It was founded by Marc Abrahams, a graduate of Harvard University who loved to explore things that were unique and funny since childhood. In an interview, Abrhams described that the idea of giving recognition to scientific humour began with some funny articles for an obscure magazine and then imbued books, columns and prizes. Written by Sharon Elaine D’Souza 2020-10-282020-10-29 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interviews Engineering, Empathy & Innovation: PakVitae Solving Water Problems for the World Rabia Nusrat, ideaXme’s Public Interviewer and an environmental engineering enthusiast from UET Lahore, interviewed Shayan Sohail Sarwar, a chemical engineer from the University of Engineering & Technology Lahore, Pakistan. Shayan Sohail Sarwar is a young innovator, and chief technology officer of Pak Vitae, a company dedicated to solving water problems for low-income communities. Driven by […] Written by ideaXme 2020-09-082020-09-08 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interviews Dr Imran Anwar: “A student should always stay curious” Dr Imran Anwar, an ardent mathematician, is currently an Associate Professor at the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences, Lahore. He has research interests in Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, and Enumerative Combinatorics. Recently, Spectra had the opportunity to speak to Dr Imran about the transformation of his initial fascination with mathematics to a career choice, […] Written by Iqra Naveed 2020-06-302020-06-30 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interviews To the Stars and Back: An Interview with Dr Tayyaba Zafar The spirit of dreaming of stars, in a city like Lahore, where you can rarely see them is in fact few and far between. Despite facing numerous challenges in STEM, with interests in astronomy—a hardly talked about course of interest in Pakistan, especially for women—Dr Tayabba Zafar pursued her dream of becoming an astrophysicist. Not […] Written by Iqra Naveed 2020-03-202020-03-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interviews Science Through the Poetic Lens Before the scientific method, philosophy answered mankind’s big questions. But somewhere along the way, science conquered philosophy; scientists became rather mechanical, surrendering their hobbies and creativity to tireless invention and discovery. IdeaXme’s founder, Andrea Macdonald, interviews Dr. Sam Illingworth, an atmospheric physicist, and an avid science communicator. Dr. Illingworth is currently a Senior Lecturer in […] Written by ideaXme 2020-02-292020-02-29 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
