If you knew me, your immediate response to the question in the title would be, “Shouldn’t it? You’re an astronomer after all.” Well, if I looked at every scientific reference around me — fictional or non fictional, artistic or analytic, abstract or direct observation — only for the science in…

Lessons that will hopefully stick with me forever and help those that follow — Now that I earned my bachelor’s degree, started my PhD journey in a new school in a much more distant land — in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to be precise — and completed a roller coaster semester learning, adapting, working and just surviving, I think it is time…

2020, despite all the euphoria that embraced the new decade, was off to a tumultuous start. The Australian bushfires raged the headlines. Many feared war. The world mourned the untimely demise of a legend. And the novel coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan, China, was increasingly grabbing everyone’s attention as the…

Checking-in, lounging and waiting, and running to the boarding gate after being called out for my tardiness precede my journey across lands and seas from or to home. And like all good things, these come at a price — at the expense of my less-than-average level of patience with the…

June 10 2021 marks the hundredth birth anniversary of the late HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away two months ago on 9 April. His centenary is indeed a great chance to remmeber him, honor his work and pledge to keep up the legacy of this great personality. …

Sixty years ago, on Apr 12, Vostok 1 carried the first man to space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who set off on the journey from Baikonur Cosmodrome, bidding farewell to chief engineer Sergei Korolev with the famous words that later was synonymous with the beginning of the space age in the…

The Holy Week is one of the most sacred times of the year for Christians around the world as we commemorate the events that constitute the pascal mystery of Christ — his passion, death, and resurrection. It begins with Palm Sunday (in 2021, when this article’s written, on Mar 28)…

As a woman in STEM, I am not just obligated to write about the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. I am privileged to spread the word as a scientist who faced far less gender-based discrimination than those who inspired me. Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Jocelyn Bell Burnell…

“Somewhere between neurons & narratives, I was born, L̶i̶v̶e̶d̶ (dreamt💫), and seemingly died…” Every time I read those words brilliantly penned by Sushant Singh Rajput, I can only think of the young genius and visionary he was and regret not getting to know him sooner. His tragic death has affected…