Quote of the day by Einstein: “God does not play dice with the universe.” Why Einstein wrote to Bohr, “Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence” — opposites who respected each otherQuote of the Day by Einstein: Over 85 years after it began, the Einstein-Bohr debate remains the most consequential intellectual rivalry in...
05 Mar, 2026, 06.23 PM IST
Quote of the day by Niels Bohr: 'Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to...'Quote of the day by Niels Bohr: Niels Bohr, a pioneer of quantum theory, believed that every significant challenge contains its own solutio...
12 Feb, 2026, 05.48 PM 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
Unveiling the hidden legacy of Lise Meitner and why she never won the Nobel PrizePhysicist Lise Meitner played a crucial role in the development of the theory of nuclear fission but has been largely overlooked in history...
02 Oct, 2023, 01.58 PM IST
Scientific and consciousHuman beings too, at the visible level are constituted of body, mind and intellect, whereas in the transcendental state, while at the thres...
28 Oct, 2022, 11.11 PM IST
Science and faithThe point being that you do not necessarily have to believe in a god or follow a certain religion or scripture in order to be a good philos...
09 Oct, 2022, 10.59 PM IST
Breaking Bad! When Heisenberg became a physicist in a science labThe caption below the photo, seen in the viral video shows this is no tribute to either Bryan Cranston nor his hit series 'Breaking Bad'.
10 Aug, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
Putting the fizz and pizzazz into physicsScience and humour: a punny thing happened on the way to the lab.
15 Nov, 2019, 08.52 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
Ape and essence of scientific theoryA number of schools in the US teach the doctrine of ‘Creationism’ — the belief in the Biblical origin of the world and of humankind — and d...
11 Mar, 2018, 11.53 PM IST
Universe's primordial soup recreated at CERNA few billionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was made up of a kind of extremely hot and dense primordial soup of the most ...
15 Feb, 2016, 03.31 PM IST
Curiosity rover's new data indicates Mars may hold liquid waterThe explanation is that the substance perchlorate has been found in the soil, which lowers the freezing point so the water does not freeze ...
14 Apr, 2015, 01.25 PM IST
Glaciers of frozen water found on MarsA thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear as surface of the ground, but radar measurements show that underneath the dust th...
09 Apr, 2015, 06.09 PM IST
Cells use fingers to 'feel' their surroundingsCells have finger-like projections they use to feel their surroundings, scientists say.
26 Dec, 2014, 01.53 PM IST
Proposed changes in Delhi University’s undergraduate courses must be replicated nationallyWhat are universities for? Universities should focus on “learning for earning” and their primary value is filtering and creating “employer ...
12 May, 2013, 05.10 AM IST
Over the moonHow then do things like the moon exist? Berkeley's answer was that there's an Infinite Perceiver, namely God, and things exist independentl...
28 Aug, 2012, 03.05 AM IST
No faith neededNiels Bohr, the great Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist, says that some objects have multiple properties.
24 Aug, 2012, 06.03 AM IST