@cassidenaep Medical attention anywhere is fast using air means which is what they need after such fiery reentry and ocean thud. Although I found that it took quite some time for the crew to emerge.
@vermaaakash10 Packed to boarding school at 7 years of age..late 80s in samastipur. The school was nearby home but grew up with south indian & bengali teachers. Most of the vacation was sent to my bua's house in Bokaro steel city from where I completed 10+2 later. I remember the jungleraj then.
Graphene just broke a fundamental law of physics.
Its electrons just did something physicists thought was impossible. For nearly 200 years, metals have obeyed the Wiedemann-Franz law – the rule that electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity always rise and fall together.
But in ultra-clean graphene, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science found the opposite. As electrical conductivity increased, thermal conductivity dropped, shattering a principle taught in every physics textbook.
The key lies at the “Dirac point,” a strange electronic tipping point where graphene is neither a metal nor an insulator. Here, electrons stop behaving like individual particles. Instead, they flow collectively as a nearly perfect fluid – a state called a “Dirac fluid.”
This discovery doesn’t just rewrite the rules for graphene. It provides a tabletop window into extreme physics usually reserved for black holes and high-energy colliders. Scientists say this behavior could help probe mysteries of quantum entanglement, black hole thermodynamics, and the very fabric of matter itself.
["Universality in quantum critical flow of charge and heat in ultraclean graphene." Nature Physics, 2025]
Vogel studied biological fluid mechanics, or the effects of winds and currents on the squishy, stretchy world of living things. Working at the intersection of biology, mathematics and physics, he investigated everything from the ventilation of prairie dog burrows, to the flows of seawater through marine sponges and air through moth antennae, to how trees and seaweed survive in high winds and crashing waves.