Some time ago, I’ve been browsing photo after Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. Here is one striking photo, which reflects the horror war and at the same time hope for the future rebuild and strength of the Japanese nation. On a photo a torii (鳥居・鳥栖・鶏栖, lit. bird perch) is a traditional Japanese gate most commonly …

According to ITAR-TASS Russian news agency, a 1 Petaflop supercomputer has been deployed at the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation in Sarov, Russia. With 780 Teraflops of sustained performance, the system the system would reportedly rank as the 12th-fastest supercomputer as the next TOP500 list will be published in June, 2011.

Very interesting column at Nature News: The career structure for scientific research in universities is broken… we should professionalize the postdoc role and turn it into a career rather than a scientific stepping stone.

Darwin’s birthday is 12 February — just one week from today. It was a really big deal back in 2009 because that was the 200th anniversary of his birthday. Last year the date sort of slipped by unnoticed, but this year everyone seems to be gearing up for another celebration.

Nature looks at key findings and events that could emerge from the research world in 2011: genome studies, synthetic biology, new space exploration missions and many more.

If you’ve ever attended to one of Edward Tufte’s seminars, you were probably caught off guard when the whitecoats begin moving through the aisles, carrying ancient manuscripts from the likes of Galileo and Playfair that are the original books of what he’s showing on overhead slides.

The Sputnik launch shocked the US policy as well as the US science in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik showed clearly that the US had lost its leadership in science and technology. In 2002, the new crisis followed when Japan introduced its Earth Simulator, the world’s fastest super computer at that time.