By Ramana Annamraju MedBricks Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma are four states of matter that we are all familiar with. There is another state of matter, peculiar of peculiars, that is called "Bose-Einstein Condensate" ( BEC). This state is as strange as the name sounds.BEC can put sudden breaks on light rays traveling at speeds of186,000 miles/second,. BEC can bring light rays to an almost grinding halt.BEC allows a rare spectacle to witness a quantum phenomenon on a macroscopic scale. One example is the same object could be in two places same time, which is a quantum phenomenon..In BEC, individual particles lose identity and behave like the waving in football games. BEC is a relatively new field of research but is expected to come out with mind-boggling applications in medicine and computer science. The largest organ in the body is the endothelium, an organ wrapping around all other organs. Endothelium functions are not well understood because of the effect of gravity. Scient...

                                                        By Jennifer  Niemier  MedBricks    When I was a senior in high school in 1983, I created an art piece of the New York skyline and Twin Towers. As a young girl living in Nebraska, I never had an opportunity to visit New York. My fascination with the architecture and the lights of New York inspired me. My art piece was specially selected as part of a traveling exhibition around the country. I graduated high school, went to college, got married, and was blessed with two children. Time lapsed and I lost track of the whereabouts of the art that was traveling in exhibitions. Then in 2001 9-11 happened. I was devastated watching the Twin Towers collapsing into the ground. I never got the opportunity to see the towers in person. The art meant so much more to me after 9-11. A ...

By Ramana Annamraju  In the entire history of science, this is the only Nobel Laureate who gave public testimony on behalf of a topless club to remain it open, truly topless. "Gianone", a strip club in Pasadena, California, was a regular hangout for celebrated theoretical physicist Richard Feynman. Feynman is not surely joking this time! He went on record with official testimony when Los Angeles county was trying to ban topless performers. Probably he was also the only physicist who was contemplating how to put the entire encyclopedia of Britannica on the tip of the pinhead while watching bare breasts. His mathematical scribblings on placemats of drinks from the strip club went for more than $5 million in the auction. Imagine a couple of things whenever you hear the word, 'Quantum". The first one is that a particle in New York can affect its twin particle's outcome, located 3000 miles away in Los Angeles. It is true even if they are billions of miles apart. The s...

                                                                 By Ramana Annamraju - MedBricks Avicenna ( 980 AD-1037 AD) is an Einstein of medicine. He might be the first cardiologist and the first author of Cardiac diseases in the history of medicine. He may have inadvertently discovered the clinical pathology behind the Lie Detector Test. Given the period and resources, this 10th-century physician's insights into the human body are simply amazing. \ "Calcium Channel Blockers" are widely used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases to reduce blood pressure, irregular heartbeats, and other pathologies. Avicenna has written a remarkable book entitled "Kitab al-Adviyt-al-Qalbiye" which translates into "The book on drugs for cardiac diseases'. There is a reference to a drug in this book cal...

                                                                               By Ramana Annamraju  MedBricks  Playing the peekaboo game is fun for the child, Mother completely appears and disappears like magic. When the mother closes and opens her face, the mother is in and out of existence for the child.. Is mother really disappearing? The answer to this question is more complicated than you think..Particularly when legendary scientists like Albert Einstein and equally famous, father of quantum physics, Niels Bohr fighting about it. The EPR paradox is in the middle of it, Niels Bohr argues (for the sake of analogy) the mother goes out of existence for the child when she closes her face. It is not figurative; it is literally she no longer exist...

By Ramana Annamraju Astrophysicist Neal De Grasse Tyson can fill up stadiums, while a doctor can hardly convince a handful in a room, to sit down.  What Covid is exposing is the colossal failure of science communication at every level. It is disheartening to see that 6 out of 10 Americans do not trust Science or Medicine. In democratically run countries, the scientific enterprise is funded by the public. Science does not happen in a vacuum. It is intertwined with people, society at large, and its norms, cultures, and institutions. In 1945 at the end of World War II, the American public made a landmark pact called. “Science -Society Contract” with the government. That is related to public support of science.  Scientific institutions need support from all walks of life, which includes the fair participation of rural whites, inner-city African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and other underrepresented communities. It should not be limited to the upper echelons of society....