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A Conversation with Gemini

Angshuman Guha · April 2, 2026

This article presents an extended dialogue between Angshuman Guha, a researcher with hands-on experience in neural networks dating back to 1993, and Google’s large language model (LLM), Gemini. It explores a set of closely…

The Slingshot Effect on Outbound Spacecraft by the Giant Planets

Abhijit Gupta and the Curiosita Editorial Team · March 21, 2026

Gravity‑assist flybys, or gravitational slingshots, are essential to modern deep‑space exploration because they allow spacecraft to gain heliocentric energy without expending propellant. By passing behind a moving planet, a probe undergoes an exchange of…

History of Science

John Stewart Bell – Part II

Andrew Whitaker · March 9, 2026

When John Bell graduated from Queen’s in mid-1949, he was lucky that, following the invention of radar and the atomic bomb in the Second World War, physics was very much in favor with the…

Medical Sciences

Intrauterine Fetal Surgery – Where Do We Stand

Gautam Sengupta · February 27, 2026

Intra-uterine fetal surgery is relatively new and a costly procedure. It requires a large, collaborative team in which each member is aware of their co-worker's role. Though considered a unique speciality, intra-uterine fetal surgery…

Artificial Intelligence

Thinking Machine II

Kunal Sen · February 24, 2026

Most intelligent tasks we perform in our lives, we learn those skills through examples rather than being told step-by-step how to do them. For example, no one told us how to recognize the numbers,…

The Universe is Filled with an Ancient Radiation

Arunabha Guha · February 18, 2026

This article is an overview of the oldest electromagnetic radiation in the Universe, known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), representing a snapshot of the cosmos approximately 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The…

Astronomers as Sleuths

Biman Nath · February 10, 2026

What if a painting were a hidden map of the heavens? In recent years, scientists have begun to treat famous canvases as puzzles to be solved with telescopes and software. Consider Vincent van Gogh’s…

⁠Beyond Horizon

An Interview with Sir AnthonyLeggett

Anindya De · February 4, 2026

Meet Professor Anthony James Leggett, Nobel laureate in Physics (2003) and titan of low-temperature physics, whose groundbreaking Leggett-Garg inequality — born from his 1985 collaboration with Anupam Garg — unlocks laboratory tests of Schrödinger’s…

The Heisenberg Corner

Heisenberg’s Sketchbook

Editorial Board · February 2, 2026

The Physicist Who Drew to Think Werner Heisenberg took up artistic pursuits as a young man, aligning with the broad cultural education expected of Germans from academic families in the early 20th century. During…

The Heisenberg Corner

Heisenberg in the Himalayas

Editorial Board · February 2, 2026

Werner Heisenberg’s 1929 world tour offered a rare glimpse into the personal experiences of the physicist just three years after his groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics...

The Heisenberg Corner

Heisenberg in Copenhagen

Editorial Board · February 2, 2026

This article examines a famous letter that Werner Heisenberg wrote to his wife, Elisabeth, in 1941, at the height of the Second World War.

Bridging the Divide

Science as a Culture – Its Implications

Shyamal Sengupta · January 28, 2026

This article explores the concept of science as a culture, positing that it functions as a significant psychological and social framework alongside its technological and methodological dimensions. The late Professor Shymal Sengupta emphasizes that…

Magazine 2026

A Conversation with Gemini

The Slingshot Effect on Outbound Spacecraft by the Giant Planets

John Stewart Bell – Part II

Intrauterine Fetal Surgery – Where Do We Stand

Thinking Machine II

The Universe is Filled with an Ancient Radiation

Astronomers as Sleuths

An Interview with Sir AnthonyLeggett

Heisenberg’s Sketchbook

Heisenberg in the Himalayas

Heisenberg in Copenhagen

Science as a Culture – Its Implications

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