8 Best Stephen Hawking Books: Explore the Mysteries of the Universe (2023)Are you ready to explore the eye-popping mysteries of the universe with the best Stephen Hawking books? We know you are, that is why you ar...
26 Apr, 2023, 03.31 PM IST
Noise is not nuisance! This is how it can boost signals and transform computersIf the key to creativity is the synergy between noisy and deterministic thinking, what are some consequences of this?
24 Oct, 2022, 03.57 PM IST
UK PM Boris Johnson scrapes win in party confidence vote over 'partygate'Johnson, who scored a sweeping election victory in 2019, has been under increasing pressure after he and staff held alcohol-fuelled parties...
07 Jun, 2022, 12.03 PM IST
Trio win physics Nobel for work that helps understand changing climateOne half of the prize, worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.15 million), goes in equal parts to Manabe, who is 90, and Hasselmann for modell...
05 Oct, 2021, 04.18 PM IST
Nobel prize ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirusTraditionally, the lavish Nobel ceremonies are held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel, at an ornate city ...
07 Dec, 2020, 05.28 PM IST
Nobel Prize ceremony to be held online this year, laureates to get their medals in their countriesThe laureates will receive their medals and diplomas next week.
02 Dec, 2020, 01.48 PM IST
View: Roger Penrose - the man with an eye for beauty and a Physics NobelHis books, from The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physic (1989), to The Roads to Reality: A Complete Guid...
12 Oct, 2020, 09.54 AM 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
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for black hole researchPenrose was awarded the Nobel for discovery on black hole formation.
06 Oct, 2020, 04.09 PM IST
Stephen Hawking, Science’s brightest star, dies aged 76He formulated some important theories in cosmology, argued for a few others that could not be verified, and wrote a book on cosmology for t...
15 Mar, 2018, 08.34 AM IST
Stephen Hawking, physicist who reshaped cosmology, passes away at 76Born on 8 January 1942, the English black-hole theorist died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England.
14 Mar, 2018, 01.06 PM IST
- 'Black hole man of India' C.V. Vishveshwara dead
Kolkata/Bengaluru, Jan 17 (IANS) Veteran scientist C.V. Vishveshwara, known as a pioneer in black hole research in India, has died, researc...
17 Jan, 2017, 06.37 PM IST
How Albert Einstein engaged with India & why some Indian scientists are reimagining his notion of gravityEinstein was a great fan of Gandhi. However he critiqued Gandhi’s weapon of satyagraha as being practical only under “ideal conditions” and...
29 Mar, 2015, 10.36 AM IST
- A day in the life of creation
Most astrophysicists say the universe started some 13.7 billion years ago when everything was infinitely compressed into a dimensionless po...
20 Dec, 2010, 09.12 PM IST