Featured Per aspera ad astra: Through Hardships To The Stars Yumna Majeed is not someone who would come to your mind when you think about science popularization and science communication. With a frail body and glasses atop her nose, she presents the look of a studious and nerdy student. But rather than being buried in her books, you will often find her gazing at the […] Written by Usman Anwar 2019-08-262019-08-28 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Interviews Physical Sciences Inspiring the Sagans of Tomorrow It is no exaggeration to say that the award-winning TV series Cosmos made science and astronomy household names around the world. Created in the 1980s by the celebrated American astronomer and science popularizer, Carl Sagan, the show influenced a whole generation of scientists. Sagan passed away in 1996, yet his work continues to inspire the […] Written by Muhammad Hamza Waseem 2019-08-252019-09-10 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured News Global Warming: Resurrection of the Dead Imagine a Dashner dystopia filled with ancient viral diseases that we once thought were gone. Imagine a world full of uncertainty with the virus-inflicted mob mentality where viruses play a crucial role in determining the behavioral changes that no one thought had qualitative or quantitative evidence to, where being a Frankenstein is no more a […] Written by Rubaa Yawar 2019-08-212019-09-02 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Biography Featured Physical Sciences Abdus Salam: A Tale of Unrequited Generosity and Devotion Whereas Salam’s leadership skills helped him set up important scientific institutions for Pakistan, his generosity allowed him to keep rendering quiet financial help to his countrymen. After he had won the Atoms for Peace Award––a gold medallion accompanied by a $30,000 honorarium––he converted it into an endowment that would help young Pakistani physicists to visit […] Written by Irfan Javed 2019-08-062019-08-06 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Biography Featured Physical Sciences Abdus Salam: A Spurned National Hero Hailed as one of the most illustrious theoretical physicists of the twentieth century, Abdus Salam was born in 1926 to Chaudhry Muhammad Husain and Bibi Hajira, a perfectly ordinary couple. Growing up in Jhang, a backward town tucked away in the center of what now forms the Pakistani province of Punjab, Salam would not see […] Written by Irfan Javed 2019-07-272019-07-30 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured SpiNNaker, the Supercomputer Which Models the Human Brain Stephen Furber is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester. He is also the creator of SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture): a supercomputer developed for brain modeling. Andrea Macdonald Founder of ideaXme interviews Stephen Furber. Furber talks about his life and work at Acorn, where he helped introduce computing into schools and […] Written by ideaXme 2019-06-072019-07-08 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Of Science, Fiction and Outreach Dr Tasneem Zehra Husain is a theoretical physicist and the first Pakistani woman to specialise in string theory, a theoretical framework attempting to describe the fundamental building blocks of the universe. She was educated at Kinnaird College, Quaid-i-Azam University, the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, and got her doctorate from Stockholm University. She […] Written by Muhammad Hamza Waseem 2019-05-062019-05-14 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured How Virtual Reality is taking the Space Industry by its reins Evelyn Miralles is the lead engineer of the Virtual Reality Lab at NASA Johnson Space Centre (JSC). She has been working with NASA since 1992 and has a vast experience in developing products to support Human Space Flight at NASA JSC. She has earned much recognition for her work and is seen as an inspiration […] Written by ideaXme 2019-04-082019-04-15 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
