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Curiosity Corner articles
Articles authored by myself , most of which were published in the Science Reporter magazine about a decade ago (1998-2001) using the database of questions asked by students from Professor Yash Pal for the TV program Turning Point
Get to know heat
This is another of those articles, a wrote about eight years ago, while I held a temporary position of scientist fellow, at NISCOM (now rechristened as NISCAIR). It was published in the m...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Why is it colder on the mountains?
A thought off reply to this oft repeated question based on my broad knowledge of science that includes physics ofcourse!
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
The atomic facts
This article was the precusor of the article Journey from electrons to quarks, in the series 'Curiosity Corner' published in the popular science magazine 'Science Reporter' during the per...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Thinking about sizes and shapes
An article I wrote for the Science Reporter Magazine around the end of the last century (1999). Spheres; squares, cylinders, circles or cubes big or small abound around us. While lemons, ...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Radio and Television
Although we use radio and television very often in our day to day life, we are often unaware about many aspects of their functioning. Several popular questions asked about them by youngst...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Journey from Electrons to Quarks
This is an article that was published in the popular science magazine Science Reporter, published from New Delhi India. Of course it was written by me. It attempts to answer several quest...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Life, from Birth to Death
This is one of the sixty articles written by me that were published in a very popular science magazine in India, the Science Reporter. This was during a temporary tenure as a research sci...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Light and Lightening
(One of the articles I wrote some 14 years ago, for the Science Reporter magazine in a regular feature called Curiosity Corner, trying to help curious scientific questions) Light can b...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Understanding sounds
Answers to several questions regarding sounds, attended by me, in an article published in Science Reporter magazine, about a decade back, in a monthly column called Curiosity Corner. The ...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Enigmatic Electricity
An article that attempts to answer several questions asked by young students about electricity ans phenomena associated with it.
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
The Blood of others
BLOOD is invariably an emotive issue. Sight of blood is often linked to danger, as excessive bleeding can indeed lead to death. But in the accident and disease prone society we live in, i...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Colours
This is the first article of the series of articles published in the popular science monthly "Science Reporter" published by NISCAIR, CSIR New Delhi., published in late 1998. In this arti...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
The grip of gravity
This is yet another of my articles published in Science Reporter about eight years ago in a series called "Curiosity Corner"
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
Metals and Magnets
An article published in the popular science magazine "science Reporter" about a decade ago. In this article i attempted to answer several questions related to magnets and metals that were...
From: Rakesh Mohan Hallen
