Mysterious Sky Lights

High-(Energy)-Lights The Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky

The high-lights of ground-based very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gammaray astronomy are reviewed. The summary covers both Galactic and extragalactic sources. Implications for our understanding of the non-thermal Universe are discussed. Identified VHE sources include various types of supernova remnants (shell-type, mixed morphology, composite) including pulsar wind nebulae, and X-ray binary s...

Mysterious Marriage

And Mysterious

" I think you might do something better with the time " , Alice said, " than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answer "-from A Mad Tea-Party Abstract. First year undergraduates usually learn about the classical Rolle's theorem saying that between two consecutive zeros of a smooth function f one can always find at least one zero of f ′. But what happens with the zeros of higher derivativ...

Mysterious origins

A survey of 2 006 U.S. adults last year revealed that 48 % believe the earliest humans lived at the time of the dinosaurs. This survey is often cited as evidence of Americans’ dismal understanding of science. But earlier this year, a television program from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) told those muddled masses that they could well be right. The program, called The Mysterious Origins...

Leptospirosis: The “mysterious” mimic

Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal bacterial disease that can display a wide array of clinical presentations thus mimicking better-known illnesses. Although, leptospirosis is primarily a zoonotic disease, it frequently inflicts severe illness and death on communities around the globe. A comprehensive overview of the disease in wake of the 2006 outbreaks in India is hereby presented and discus...