Einstein is celebrated as a genius, but we seldom talk about the bittersweet search for the ether, only to find our universe void of it. This article is about the forgotten ones who invested themselves into seeking the truth and performing experiments to verify the hypothesis. It is about failed ideas and the essence of the scientific method.

We understand only the tiniest amount of things about Jupiter and, day by day we keep finding out more we don’t know. In Indian Astronomy, this planet is known as Brihaspati, the Guru or teacher, and it surely does live up to its name. In this article, I discuss some of the peculiar observations of Jupiter, like its abnormal magnetic fields, and how it has at times helped and other times troubled our planet by deflecting massive objects.

Once formally introduced to Science, students are used to looking for science within books and sophisticated machinery. Ironically, it was a childlike curiosity about the things around us that initiated us to science in the first place. It is important to embrace, and look out for such science from time to time, to remind ourselves that it's not all inside the books. The article discusses some of the science I discovered at home during the COVID pandemic, from the ecosystem in my garden, to demonstrating the Leidenfrost effect in the kitchen.

Half a century has passed since humankind stepped onto the moon. ‘One step for a man, one giant leap for mankind’, in the words of Armstrong. Yet so hostile did it prove to be for life, that we had to turn our gaze further away into the darkness. We wandered around Venus, who with the cloud veil of hers has always been unwelcome to the curiosity of a stranger. Little did we know, we would be greeted by our most unexpected neighbour, the god of war, Mars.