March 14 in world history: From Pi Day celebrations to the birth of Albert EinsteinMarch 14th marks Albert Einstein's birthday and Pi Day, celebrating the mathematical constant. This date also commemorates Eli Whitney's co...
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Computer advances and 'invisibility cloak' vie for physics NobelThe Nobel Prize in Physics is set to be announced, with potential honorees recognized for advancements in wavelet theory powering image com...
07 Oct, 2025, 08.43 AM IST
Google's top AI scientist reveals the most important skill people need, and it's not codingGoogle's DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, a 2024 Nobel laureate, emphasizes the importance of "learning how to learn" in the age of rapid AI a...
13 Sep, 2025, 04.15 PM IST
Google DeepMind CEO says learning how to learn will be next generation's most needed skillDemis Hassabis, a Google DeepMind scientist, spoke in Athens. He highlighted the importance of learning how to learn. Rapid AI changes dema...
13 Sep, 2025, 10.25 AM IST
In India, home to IITians, IIMians, 'school kids struggle with day to day calculations'A study published in Nature reveals that Indian kids working in markets excel at mental math but struggle with academic math taught in scho...
17 Feb, 2025, 12.31 PM IST
Nobel Prizes highlight the intersection of AI and fundamental researchThis year's Nobel Prizes highlight AI's significant role in basic research, illustrating how computing blurs scientific boundaries. Winners...
11 Oct, 2024, 11.09 PM IST
ET Awards: We should look beyond speciesism — industry relies on nature, says Meera Jain, Founder, Evoke“Industry relies on the conservation of nature,” Jain emphasised, explaining “the real math underpinning our existence”.
18 Mar, 2024, 04.24 PM IST
Raise a toast to maths wiz Neena GuptaIndia's pool of talent in science, engineering, technology and maths should balloon, as girls shake off, inspired by Gupta, the notion that...
17 Dec, 2021, 11.32 PM IST
Google celebrates Teachers' Day with animated doodleThe day marks the birth anniversary of former president Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
05 Sep, 2019, 11.46 AM IST
Google celebrates physicist Lev Davidovich Landau, who has a crater on the moon named after him, with doodleThe doodle marked the 111th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate.
22 Jan, 2019, 03.01 PM IST
Indian Science Congress a circus? Scientists splitNobel laureate Ramakrishnan told TOI on Tuesday that he would never attend the ISC ever as it was a "circus where very little science was d...
07 Jan, 2016, 11.45 AM IST
Malala Yousafzai plans to leave United Kingdom to study in CaliforniaTeenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is considering leaving Britain to study for a politics degree at Stanford University in the US.
11 Oct, 2015, 02.18 PM IST
- Need to change the way maths is being taught in India: Manjul Bhargava
Renowned Indian-American mathematician Manjul Bhargava today said there is a need to change the way the subject is being taught in the coun...
14 Mar, 2015, 09.44 PM IST
China, an emerging super power in Science and technology: Anand KumarIndia needs to work on "war-footing" to improve its education system if it wants to compete at the international level where China is emerg...
13 Feb, 2012, 04.41 PM IST
- 'Hope Infosys Prize winners get Nobel'
The Infosys Prize, which awards Rs 50 lac to every winner for scientific research, aims to evangelize pursuit of pure science, humanities a...
26 Oct, 2010, 07.00 AM IST
- Just two Indian institutions
Only IISc and IIT, Kharagpur feature in the list of world's top 500 universities.
21 Aug, 2010, 05.12 AM IST
- Indian-born wins Math Nobel Prize
Chennai-born-Varadhan was cited for 'in particular for a unified theory of large deviations'.
27 Mar, 2007, 01.00 PM IST