Thursday Motivation by Kofi Annan: 'To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you..., where you want to go and why you...'Kofi Annan championed peace and human rights globally. He served as UN Secretary-General, focusing on poverty and disease reduction. Annan ...
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Quote of the Day by Bernhard Riemann: "If only I had the theorems..." — Inspiring life lessons from the renowned German mathematician on curiosity, discovery, innovation, and why great ideas come before perfect answersQuote of the Day by Bernhard Riemann: "If only I had the theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough." One remarkable thought fro...
17 Jul, 2026, 05.43 PM IST
Pedro Sanchez, a global champion who fed the world’s poor dies at 85Pedro A. Sanchez, a soil scientist, passed away at 85. He revolutionized agriculture in poor nations, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. San...
27 Jan, 2026, 10.25 AM IST
A man solves one of the most difficult maths problems, refuses Rs 8.5 crore award and then changes his careerRussian mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the century-old Poincaré conjecture, a complex topological problem. His 2002 solution was con...
21 Dec, 2024, 02.39 PM IST
PIO scientist’s work may be key in Covid battle“We are only scratching the surface of what is possible. It is a long journey… We were surprised to see the benefits it has had on basic re...
30 May, 2021, 10.21 AM IST
British Indian chemist Shankar Balasubramanian in Millennium Technology Prize winning team for revolutionary DNA techSir Balasubramanian and Sir Klenerman co-invented the Solexa-Illumina Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology enabling fast, accur...
19 May, 2021, 08.32 AM IST
COVID 2.0: Large-scale vaccination, not shutdown, is the new mantraA year after it imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown, India is staring at a rising curve of Covid-19 infections.
28 Mar, 2021, 12.20 AM IST
View: Development economists who go small have a pointPritchett reasons that the only thing that really alleviates a nation’s poverty on a significant scale is economic growth.
08 Nov, 2019, 09.58 AM IST
Germ theory: How probiotic products are flying off the shelvesProbiotics gain demand in the new millennium but there is still a lot of grey area around the science of ingesting good bacteria.
05 Jan, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
Is jingoistic science discrediting the astounding achievements of ancient Indian knowledge?At the 102nd Science Congress, an aeroplane powered by 40 engines from the Vedic Age rode on a recent wave of revisionist clamour.
11 Jan, 2015, 04.16 AM IST
- Math movement
Mathematical community is not prone to blindingly-obvious explanations.
13 Aug, 2010, 06.52 AM IST
- Obama calls for new beginning between US, Muslims
Obama spoke at Cairo University after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the second stop of a four-nation trip to the Middle ...
04 Jun, 2009, 05.03 PM IST
- The American anti-intellectual threat
US must return to the global consensus based on shared science rather than anti-intellectualism. That is the urgent challenge at the heart ...
23 Oct, 2008, 01.11 AM IST
- Antiquity on the edge
Temples more than a thousand years old dot Morena’s badlands, but not everyone is as intrepid as Arjun Kumar to actually go there and see t...
07 Jun, 2007, 12.00 AM IST