Dr. Najeeb Kuzhiyil Staff Scientist at Exxon Mobil Corporation, USA What is Research?Research is the process by which new knowledge, process, and products are created. Most of the products we use today in your day-to-day life, from toothpaste to soap and buses to airplanes, were part of somebody’s research someday. Research brings about discovery, invention, …
Dr. Assa Aravindh Adjunct Professor/Docent at University of OuluNorthern Finland, Finland The year was 1925, and the Austrian Physicist, Erwin Schrodinger was enjoying his Christmas holidays at the Switzerland, and he wrote to his friend a letter that read as follows, “ At the moment I am struggling with a new atomic theory. I am very optimistic about …
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Jeena A V, PhD researcher, University of Oulu Every industrial revolution has brought a drastic change in the way we look at the world, in the way we live, carry out scientific experiments, and governance of the society. We are in the early phase of the ongoing fourth industrial revolution (or Industry 4.0). The information …
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Prof. P. Ajith, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Some questions in science are too big to be answered by a small number of individuals working on their own. It happens, in particular, when these questions push the frontiers of knowledge — for example, related to the fundamental building blocks of matter, …
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PhD How keep up if you are interested in science and you can’t pursue PhD due to financial conditions? Ans: All students get financial aid for doing PhD. Research careers may not be financially lucrative, but it depends on what you want to do in life. If you are passionate about science, go ahead and …
Dr. Rajesh V Nair, IIT Ropar Photonics is a science of the generation, detection, and manipulation of photons, the fundamental quantum of light, and the most mysterious object in the universe. It has dual nature and propagates with time-and space-dependent changes in the electric field associated with it. Photons enable you to read this article …
Dileep Mampallil, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Tirupati Microfluidics refers to the field involving fluid manipulation in the micron scale. Microfluidic devices, often called lab-on-chip devices, are mainly comprised of micro-channels to transport fluids. Water, blood, or chemical solutions are examples of fluids involved. Many sensors that we use in our life use microfluidics. …
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Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri, IIT Bombay Why Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Engineering are important to understand the secret of “life”? To understand that we should know what biology is. It is the science of living beings. But what are these living beings? They are some machines that take energy from outside (sunlight, food), create some “order”, …
