Who was Eunice Newton Foote? The American climate scientist who is being celebrated by Google DoodleEunice Newton Foote was a pioneering scientist who conducted groundbreaking experiments on the relationship between carbon dioxide and temp...
17 Jul, 2023, 10.03 AM IST
Carbon tech investment defies venture capital downturn, says PitchBookThe amount raised in 2022 for carbon and emissions technologies was only 2% below 2021's record $14.1 billion, according to a report by Pit...
14 Feb, 2023, 06.08 PM IST
Neanderthals, humans co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: studyResearch by Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the medicine Nobel prize last week, helped reveal that people of European descent...
13 Oct, 2022, 10.30 PM IST
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Economics PrizeThe prize, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year's crop of...
10 Oct, 2022, 06.42 PM IST
Nobel Prize 2022: List of all Nobel Prize winners from 2016The prize was instituted in 1901 to recognize the contributions of people who could affect change with their discoveries and help the world.
07 Oct, 2022, 10.05 PM IST
- Nobel panel to announce winner of peace prize
The award has in the past put a spotlight on groups and activists trying to prevent conflicts, alleviate hardship and protect human rights....
07 Oct, 2022, 12.57 PM IST
Nobel Prize 2022: French author Annie Ernaux bags Nobel Prize in literatureFrench author Annie Ernaux, known for her autobiographical writing about courage and clinical acuity, won the Nobel Prize in literature thi...
06 Oct, 2022, 06.12 PM IST
Nobel Prize 2022: Winners of the Nobel Prize in PhysicsNobel Prize in Physics for 2022 is shared by three scientists. Here are the details.
05 Oct, 2022, 03.06 PM IST
Meet Svante Paabo, the Swedish scientist who won Nobel in medicine. His father got it in 1982Techniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins - the Denisovans as...
04 Oct, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
Nobel Prize winner Svante Paabo's work: Neanderthal genome, DenisovansSvante Paabo and colleagues extracted and sequenced the first Neanderthal genome from ancient bones. He also brought to light the existence...
03 Oct, 2022, 08.21 PM IST
Svante Pääbo wins Nobel Prize in MedicineLast year's recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touc...
03 Oct, 2022, 08.13 PM IST
Nobel prize in medicine awarded for research on evolutionSwedish scientist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insi...
03 Oct, 2022, 05.25 PM IST
- Climate Action
Climate science tells us that cumulative emissions, more than the annual rate of emission, are the key control on the eventual peak warming.
20 Sep, 2021, 11.20 PM IST
Fly-on-the-wall film on Greta Thunberg reveals her as steely, funny girl & a secret dancerSeveral scenes show in the documentary her clashing with her actor father, Svante.
05 Sep, 2020, 02.59 PM IST
Greta Thunberg got no support from me: Fathern an interview to the BBC, Greta’s father Svante Thunberg said he thought it was “a bad idea” for his daughter to take to the “front line” ...
30 Dec, 2019, 11.15 PM IST
Arnold Schwarzenegger inspired by Greta Thunberg, goes cycling with climate change activistThe two were joined by Svante Thunberg and Christina Schwarzenegger.
08 Nov, 2019, 06.01 PM IST
Language skills tied to ancient gene mutationScientists have found that a gene mutation that arose more than half a million years ago may be key to humans' unique ability to produce an...
16 Sep, 2014, 02.42 PM IST