Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, passes away at 94Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle - the so-called Higgs boson - in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the particle'...
09 Apr, 2024, 10.26 PM IST
Agostini, Krausz and L’Huillier bag Physics Nobel for study of electron dynamics in matterPierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experimental methods in gen...
03 Oct, 2023, 04.33 PM IST
Trump administration carries out 13th and final executionDustin Higgs, convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996, was the third to receive a lethal injection t...
16 Jan, 2021, 12.18 PM IST
View: Why this year's Physics Nobel comes as a pleasant surpriseAlfred Nobel's will clearly indicates that these prizes are meant for those inventions that are of the ‘greatest practical benefit to manki...
09 Oct, 2020, 11.27 PM IST
How particle physics inspired Gilles Jobin to choreograph 'Quantum'Jobin was moved by the breadth and beauty of particle physics, and also witnessed the discovery and announcement of the Higgs boson.
12 Dec, 2015, 06.03 AM IST
Over 10,000 people sign up for online Peter Higgs courseThe free seven-week course, titled 'The Discovery of the Higgs boson', is being run by the University of Edinburgh in UK.
10 Feb, 2014, 02.01 PM IST
How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?Sen might have won a Nobel Prize if string theorists were allowed to. In 1998, when he won the fellowship of the Royal Society.
19 Dec, 2013, 05.36 AM IST
- Girish Karnad not the only one to aver that some Nobel laureates are undeserving
He would not be alone in pointing out that Nobel selectors often fall short of expectations when it comes to choosing laureates.
12 Nov, 2012, 04.44 AM IST
The $3 million prize may draw people to physics: Ashoke SenAshoke Sen says heoretical physics research doesn't need elaborate infrastructure.
05 Aug, 2012, 11.18 AM IST
A Godsent ParticleScientists are acutely embarrassed by the media referring to it as the 'God particle'.
06 Jul, 2012, 04.51 AM IST
Using religion to sell scienceLeon Lederman said it made perfect sense to invoke the Almighty while re-naming the Higgs particle, because the mechanism that supposedly b...
27 Sep, 2008, 01.49 AM IST