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Why 137 is the Most Magical Number in Science?

This article is based on the 2009 book "137: Jung, Pauli and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession," written by Arthur I. Miller, an emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. In his book, he has explained why Carl Jung (world-renowned psychiatrist) and Wolfgang Pauli (theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics) had an obsession with the number 137. The Fine-structure Constant To physicists, 137 is the approximate denominator of the fine-structure constant (1/137.03599913), the measure of the strength of the electromagnetic force that controls how charged elementary particles such as the electron and muon interact with photons of light, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fine-structure constant is one of the key physical constants of the universe. "This immutable number determines how stars burn, how chemistry happens, and even whether atoms exist at all," as Michael B...

Purnia district is all set to become a bibliophile’s haven

Bihar’s Purnia, once seen as a backward and illiterate area, is all set to become a bibliophile’s haven with a library in almost every panchayat of the district, resulting in a collection of over 100,000 donated books. Out of 230 panchayats in Purnia district, 190 panchayats have their own libraries and the district administration has launched a ‘Kitab Daan Rath’ (a book donation vehicle) to collect books donated by patrons not only to open libraries in the remaining 40 panchayats but also to keep reading habits, especially amongst the youth, alive. In preparation for competitive and other examinations, youth and students from Purnia’s remote regions have been coming to libraries to study books and browse journals. - cited from HindustanTimes article

They woke after a Sleep of 24,000 Years..!!!

Recently in many science blogs, we have seen the news about some microscopic animal that has been revived after a sleep of 24,000 years, but it’s not the first case when some living thing has been reported with such extraordinary ability. For example, stems of Antarctic moss were successfully regrown from an over millennium-old sample covered by ice for about 400 years. Likewise, whole campion plants were regenerated from seed tissue preserved in relict 32,000-year-old permafrost, and nematodes were revived from the permafrost of two localities in northeastern Siberia, with source sediments dated over 30,000 years ago. This case is about microscopic multicellular animals called bdelloid rotifers are known for their ability to survive extremely low temperatures. They had been reported to survive 6-10 years when frozen between minus 20 and 0 degrees Celsius. Now, an international team of biologists has successfully revived bdelloid rotifers that have been frozen in the Siberian permafros...

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