Conceptual Physics Costumes for Halloween

It’s late October, which means that the thoughts of small children and adults who have never quite grown up turn to selecting appropriate costumes for Halloween. In the spirit of these literary suggestions and these abstract concept suggestions, I thought it would be useful to offer some suggestions for physics-themed costumes, for those who...
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Record-Breaking Neutron Star Is Clue to Exotic Physics

A quick-spinning stellar corpse is the most massive of its kind ever seen. The dead star’s extra bulk could rule out several theories about what these dense stellar objects are made of — and provide a celestial lab to explore exotic matter. “For people who work in this field, it’s huge,” said neutron-star astronomer...
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Professor Anku boosts interest in practical mathematics

Professor Sitsofe E. Anku, President of Ghana Mathematics Society, on Tuesday expressed the need for practical mathematics to be made an integral part in teaching the subject to make it easy for students. He said studying mathematics should not only gear towards examination and neglecting the basic understanding of its concept, which constitutes the...
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Thumbs up to new maths course

Arithmetic, abacus, calculations and cheerful kids enjoying every moment of it. This unlikely scene played out in the capital Sunday at the fifth Northern Region Abacus and Mental Arithmetic competition. Organised by Sociable Intellectual Progressive Academy (SIP), the annual event helps children develop memory, concentration, and arithmetic skills by using internationally proven tools like...
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Airtel launches Maths, Science learning application

New Delhi: Adding another feather to its value added services hat, Bharti Airtel on Thursday launched an application which would help its users to learn science and mathematics with more ease. In collaboration with Next Education India, an e-learning company,Bharti launched ‘LearnNExt’, an e-learning website for its broadband users wherein students of class VI...
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Primary schoolkids to learn English

LUDHIANA: To strengthen the Padho Punjab Project, the office of Punjab Director General School Education (DGSE) and state project director of Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan Authority has decided that all primary teachers will get training in teaching English in addition to maths and Punjabi that are already being taught under the project.
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