Times of India: In India and elsewhere, high-school physics classes are based mostly on the physics of the 19th and earlier centuries. But as Utpal Sarkar of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India, found out when a group of students visited his lab, students are interested and inspired by unsolved problems at the frontiers of physics. The result of Sarkar’s epiphany is a new book, Flavours of Physics, which he and other Indian physicists wrote with support from the Indian National Science Academy.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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