Quote of the Day by British physicist Paul Dirac: ‘God is a mathematician of a very high order and he used…’Theoretical physicist Paul Dirac believed the universe is built using advanced mathematics. He saw this order as the work of a master mathe...
02 Mar, 2026, 01.22 PM IST
Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking: ‘Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of…’Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking encapsulates a life devoted to understanding the cosmos. It reminds humanity that even in the face of l...
19 Feb, 2026, 11.02 AM IST
Stephen Hawking Was Told He’d Die Young, Then Explored the UniverseDiagnosed with a fatal motor neuron disease at 21, Stephen Hawking defied doctors' predictions of a two-year lifespan. He went on to earn a...
12 Feb, 2026, 04.02 PM IST
Startup claims it can make gold from mercury using fusion; science fiction turns realIn a surprising announcement, Marathon Fusion, an innovative startup from Silicon Valley, claims to have achieved the impossible: convertin...
23 Jul, 2025, 02.34 PM IST
Eggs most likely to stay safe from cracks when dropped on their side, MIT study revealsA new MIT study reveals that eggs are less likely to crack when dropped on their side, challenging the long-held belief that they’re strong...
09 May, 2025, 01.04 AM IST
Nvidia join hands with Disney Research, Google DeepMind to create physics engine, NewtonNewton is designed to simulate robotic movements in real-world environments. An early, open-source version of Newton is planned for release...
19 Mar, 2025, 07.41 PM IST
NTA under fire once again: 12 questions dropped in JEE-Main 2025 due to errors, highest in recent yearsNTA has faced criticism for dropping a record 12 JEE-Main questions due to errors, raising concerns about its ability to conduct a fair and...
13 Feb, 2025, 03.50 PM IST
21st century economics needs a better goal than ‘growth’: Kate RaworthKate Raworth, a Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, discusses the need to reinvent economics to address...
15 Feb, 2024, 09.56 PM IST
Google dedicates doodle to Eunice Newton Foote, the first person to discover Green House Effect, on her 204th birth anniversaryNewton Foote was one of the pioneers in the field of climate science. She was the first individual to discover the greenhouse effect and it...
17 Jul, 2023, 05.18 PM IST
Electric cars are passé: This flying battery is the dream of every green aviatorA battery-powered aircraft with no internal combustion has been a goal of engineers ever since the Wright brothers.
20 Apr, 2022, 06.31 PM IST
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could pave way for future rover-drone tandem missions"Even though Ingenuity is a tech demo, meaning we are trying to demonstrate a new technology and not necessarily doing any science data gat...
19 Feb, 2021, 12.51 PM IST
Nobel Prizes and coronavirus: Favour slow, basic science over quick fix remediesScience builds upon previous work, with thinkers "standing on the shoulders of giants," as Isaac Newton put it, and it starts with basic re...
03 Oct, 2020, 03.53 PM IST
IIT Madras develops AI tech to convert brain signals of speech-impaired humans into languageIIT Madras researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence technology to convert brain signals of speech impaired humans into languag...
03 Feb, 2020, 02.01 PM IST
Viraj Kalyani uses physics to define life and business philosophiesViraj (nephew of Bharat Forge chairman Baba Kalyani) was brought up with a sense of destiny to take on the spurs of Kalyani Forge.
25 May, 2017, 08.56 AM IST
Yale physicist R Shankar teaches physics combined with a liberal dose of humourAs he starts his year-long course on the fundamentals of physics, Yale University professor R Shankar gives his students a quick synopsis.
21 Mar, 2015, 04.22 AM IST
- UK honour for top Indian-origin scientists
The six Indian-origin scientists are among 44 experts elected for 2012 and include Tejinder Singh Virdee, Professor of Physics at Imperial ...
22 Apr, 2012, 09.01 PM IST
- A matter of degree, not kind
It is notable that 175 years after Macaulay's minute on education, which led to monumental changes in pedagogy and learning here, things re...
03 Jun, 2010, 06.44 AM IST