Satori Learning Systems

23/12/2021

Dr Parimala Raman, Prof Neena Gupta, Dr Sujatha Ramdorai, Kavita Ramanan, Mangala Narlikar

5 Women Who Simplified Math & Disproved Theorems

There is little question that the perception of mathematics as a male domain remains strong. Women continue to be underrepresented in not just

15/12/2021

04/12/2021

27/11/2021

Trigonometric formulae. A ready reckoner.

04/11/2021

Akilan Sankaran, 14, is on his school's varsity track team and plays the piano, the flute and drums — and yet somehow he still found time to devise a computer program that could speed up some of your favorite apps.

Akilan Sankaran wrote a program that has the potential to make everyday online tasks run more smoothly and efficiently. He won one of the country's biggest middle school science competitions.

30/10/2021

Indian physicist Homi J. Bhabha who became the founding father of India's nuclear program and its renowned Tata Institute for Fundamental Research was born on 30th October, 1909. Here he accompanies Albert Einstein, Hideki Yukawa, and John Wheeler in Princeton, NJ

16/10/2021

Despite their ability to live in extremely inhospitable environments, tardigrades' bodies rarely fossilize unless they get stuck in amber. Recently, a group of researchers uncovered a decently preserved specimen inside a piece of amber found in the Dominican Republic. It is the third tardigrade fossil to be described. It was given its own evolutionary genus and species, adding yet another branch to the tardigrade family tree.

The microscopic tardigrades are an elusive species. Fossils are rare, but each new find adds a piece to their unsolved evolutionary puzzle.

05/10/2021

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.

Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian separately identified receptors in the skin that respond to heat and pressure, and researchers are working on drugs to target them. But the breakthroughs, which happened decades ago, have not yet yielded many effective new treatments for pain, which often includes a psychological component.

Julius, of the University of California at San Francisco, used capsaicin, the active component in chili peppers, to help pinpoint the nerve sensors that respond to heat, the Nobel Committee said. Patapoutian, of Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California, found pressure-sensitive sensors in cells that respond to mechanical stimulation.

“This really unlocks one of the secrets of nature,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary-general of the committee, in announcing the winners. “It’s actually something that is crucial for our survival, so it’s a very important and profound discovery.”

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.

03/10/2021

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