Quote of the day by Hermann Hesse, “The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world” — Why this 1919 Demian line still defines personal growth today?Quote of the day: Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse wrote in Demian, “The bird fights its way out of the egg.” Today, searches for Hermann H...
19 Feb, 2026, 01.44 AM IST
Quote of the day on love and emotions by Albert Einstein: ‘You can’t blame gravity for falling…’Albert Einstein, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, developed the theories of relativity. Born in Germany in 1879, he is considered the most ...
05 Feb, 2026, 10.19 AM IST
Quote of the Day by Niels Bohr: ‘An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field’Experience teaches humility. True expertise is built on mistakes and lessons learned. Niels Bohr, a renowned physicist, believed experts ma...
22 Jan, 2026, 10.31 AM IST
Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: ‘Learn from yesterday, live for…’Albert Einstein, a renowned physicist, developed theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize. His famous quote "Learn from yesterday, li...
31 Dec, 2025, 09.17 AM IST
Chen Ning Yang, nobel laureate and physics pioneer, dies at 103; Why he renounced US citizenship despite calling it a ‘beautiful country’Nobel laureate physicist Chen Ning Yang, renowned for his work on parity laws, has passed away at 103. Yang, who shared the 1957 Nobel Priz...
18 Oct, 2025, 01.59 PM IST
This Indian scientist made three discoveries that let doctors see inside the body without surgery, but was never given a NobelGopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran, a brilliant Indian scientist, revolutionized protein research and medical imaging with three major di...
08 Oct, 2025, 04.37 PM IST
How a 14-year-old’s medical treatment in 1922 revolutionized diabetes care and led to a historic four-way Nobel Prize splitThe invention of insulin in 1922 marked a turning point in medical history. Sparked by Frederick Banting’s idea and tested on diabetic pati...
30 Jun, 2025, 01.28 PM IST
CSR as corporate penanceTaking with one hand and giving (back) with another has always been industry SOP. Big tobacco sponsoring marquee sports from cricket to For...
31 Dec, 2024, 10.29 PM IST
Nobel-winning lithium battery inventor John Goodenough dies at 100John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the lithium-ion battery that revolutionized modern life, has d...
27 Jun, 2023, 02.24 PM IST
Nobel laureate John Goodenough, who co-created lithium-ion battery, passes away at 100John Goodenough, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the development of the lithium-ion battery, passed...
27 Jun, 2023, 08.31 AM IST
John Goodenough, Nobel laureate and battery pioneer, dies at 100The American was "was a leader at the cutting edge of scientific research throughout the many decades of his career," said Jay Hartzell, Pr...
27 Jun, 2023, 06.51 AM IST
History of hunger: A famine 100 years ago is key to understanding the Ukrainian crisisIt’s estimated that 3.9 million Ukrainians died of starvation due to the famine.
20 Feb, 2022, 09.26 AM IST
Over 1,100 letters written by TS Eliot to muse unveiled for researchDating from 1930 to 1957, the letters are the largest single series of Eliot's correspondence.
02 Jan, 2020, 06.58 PM IST
Swedish businessman gifts Einstein's first paper on relativity theory after Nobel Prize to museumPer Taube had bought the document at an auction for nearly $128K.
21 Jun, 2019, 06.46 PM IST
Google honours Indian-American scientist Har Gobind Khorana with doodle on 96th birth anniversaryKhorana is famous for his Nobel-Prize winning research on the cell's genetic code.
09 Jan, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
Albert Einstein's letter to colleague may fetch $5,000 at auctionEinstein adds the salutation in his own hand, as well as a brief line after his signature.
04 Dec, 2017, 09.34 PM IST
Nobel Memorial Wall inaugurated at Rajiv Chowk stationA 'Nobel Memorial Wall' inaugurated at Delhi Metro's Rajiv Chowk station, portions of which bore factual inaccuracies.
10 Oct, 2015, 06.14 PM IST