Admission to DNB Post Diploma Courses through DNB PD CET 2013

The National Board of Examinations (NBE) has invited applications for aspiring students who want to join various post diploma courses in modern medicine. The Diplomate National Board Post Diploma Centralized Entrance Test (DNB PD CET) exam will be conducted in late August.

AICTE to conduct First CMAT 2014-15 in September 2013

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will be conducting the first Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) from 26 to 30 September, 2013 for admission to management programmes for the 2014 to 2015 academic session.

Space Station Illuminates Dusty Plasmas for a Wide Range of Research

One of the most frequently-used physics laboratories on the International Space Station recently completed its final set of experiments. The Plasma Kristall Experiment (PK-3 Plus) lab, a Russian-German cooperation in operation since January 2006, has provided new insight into an unusual type of matter called plasma crystals. Though the experiment runs came to a close on June 14, the research continues to open an exciting world of potential technological spin-offs in medicine, agriculture and general science.

(Side view of a plasma crystal in the laboratory. Dust particles are suspended in an argon plasma above a high-frequency electrode (bottom). The horizontal field of view is 2 cm. (Credit: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics))

The unique environment of microgravity allows physicists to study how these crystals form inside dusty plasmas--a type of matter with unique properties found everywhere--in ways not possible on Earth.

Imaging Electron Pairing in a Simple Magnetic Superconductor

In the search for understanding how some magnetic materials can be transformed to carry electric current with no energy loss, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell University, and collaborators have made an important advance: Using an experimental technique they developed to measure the energy required for electrons to pair up and how that energy varies with direction,