Yesterday, Prof. Shashikumar Madhusudan Chitre (84), one of the very well known scientists closely associated with Science Communication and very closely associated with the Nehru Science Ce...

Shivaprasad Khened, Director, Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai The story of the ‘accidental’ discovery of penicillin has been frequently told and this story has transcended across countries. Eve...

Science Safari On the hunt for new medicines We are currently living in a world where many of our known and trusted antibiotics are no longer effective against diseases they used to cure. Wi...

Sheldon Paquin Project Leader – Antibiotics, Science Museum, London A hundred years ago, medicine looked very different. Even though we understood that disease and infection could be caus...

Dr. Saroj Ghose Prelude Dr S Hussain Zaheer, then Director General of CSIR, was in his office at Delhi in a very relaxed mood after a post-lunch brief nap. That was in the last week of March...

Paula Gangopadhyay Chief Learning Officer, The Henry Ford Dearborn, Michigan, USA Recently, I had the distinct opportunity to be the guest of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) at th...

by Sowmya Rajaram Too slow. Too fast. Too much to the right and ...crash. Drat. Trial two. This time, I'm a tad slower, consciously making sure I, prostrate in a contraption, don't t...

An article published in ‘Planetarian’, Journal of the International Planetarium Society by Shri V. S Ramachandran & Shri Jayant Gangopadhyay, Regional Science Centre & Planetarium, Calicut,...

I’m so happy that NCSM has a blog; I think it must be one of the very few museum blogs in India. Because museums are part of a global network today, I think it is so important for museum pro...

It was a session of the International Conference on ‘Strategic Transformations: Museums in the 21st Century’ held in February this year.I was listening to Prof. Hans Martin Hinz, President I...

Holi, the festival of Colours is celebrated in different corners of India with pomp and gaiety on full moon day in the month of Phalgun which is the month of March as per the Gregorian calen...

My dear friend, if you are born on March 14, then you are lucky enough to share your birthday with the great physicist Albert Einstein. He was born on the date in 1879. We all know about his...