Mystery deepens as FBI investigates missing US scientists; House Oversight Committee launches parallel probeA series of unexplained deaths and disappearances involving US scientists and government personnel, including a retired Air Force general, ...
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Nobel Prize winner in Physics, David Gross says humanity may not survive 50 years - here are his chilling reasonsOver 12,000 nuclear warheads remain active across the globe today. Nine nations hold the power to end civilization as we know it. And accor...
20 Apr, 2026, 06.33 PM IST
Two Padma & over 10 top global prizes: This IITian scientist won honours bigger than Nobel yet lives simply & rides a bicycle to workProfessor Ashoke Sen, a renowned theoretical physicist, has made remarkable contributions to string theory. He was awarded the prestigious ...
08 Apr, 2026, 04.51 PM IST
Scientists Built an AI Tool That May Help Decode Animal VoicesA groundbreaking computational model named Chatter is revolutionizing animal communication research. This Python library employs advanced m...
11 Mar, 2026, 06.10 PM IST
Scientist links human consciousness to a higher dimension beyond our perceptionPhysicist Michael Pravica proposes a controversial theory suggesting that human consciousness connects to hidden dimensions beyond our perc...
21 Sep, 2024, 02.29 PM IST
IISc physicists find a new way to represent ‘pi’Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have unveiled a new series representation for the irrational number pi while researchi...
18 Jun, 2024, 02.52 PM IST
Does time exist? Physicists and philosophers think it does not. ExplainedIt'll take a little while to explain, but don't worry: even if time doesn't exist, our lives will go on as usual.
19 Apr, 2022, 01.12 PM IST
What Stephen Hawking thought about the multiverse might surprise youMany scientists including Hawking don't like the idea of the multiverse.
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15 Stephen Hawking quotes that reveal how a genius thinks"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without a need for a creator."
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Why Einstein's theory of gravity has become the most important task for physicists after a centuryIn the next few decades, finishing what Einstein began may turn out to be the most important event in science for a long time.
05 Jul, 2015, 06.59 AM IST
Here is why Captain Kirk Star Trek mission was just rightThat the universe is expanding — fast — is accepted; surely, scientists can theorise colourfully about its implications if they stick to th...
23 Jun, 2015, 07.02 AM IST
World’s best physicists to attend Strings Conference 2015 in Bengaluru to debate the mysteries of scienceNext week’s conference, being held in India after 14 years, brings some of the big stars of the physics world to discuss some of the deepes...
19 Jun, 2015, 10.26 AM IST
12 Stephen Hawking quotes reveal how a genius thinks"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
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Physicists hoping to see exotic stuff when the Large Hadron Collider wakes up from slumberIn 2012, inside the LHC under the Alps Mountains, physicists raised the temperature to 5.5 trillion degrees centigrade by smashing together...
31 Jan, 2015, 03.56 AM 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
Indian scientist Ashoke Sen bags top physics honourSen and eight other scientists will get $3 million each - double of what is given with the Nobel prize. Sen has been awarded for his pionee...
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A Mock Turtle TaleStephen Hawking tells the story of a well-known scientist who once gave a public lecture on astronomy. At the end, a little old lady gets u...
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