What is it and how does it work? SeismoHome is a home seismometer / seismograph project capable of recording acceleration data and determining the intensity of an earthquake to trigger an alarm. Also, ...

IISc physicists discovered that Ramanujan’s classic π-formulas arise naturally in modern theories describing critical phenomena and black holes. The connection suggests his early mathematics may have ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...