Physics Nobel awarded for Big Bang-related theory and exoplanet discovery
US scientist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz are recipients of the prize for 2019
What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?
Dispersion is the ability of waves of different wavelengths to each move at their own individual speeds
How did Uranus end up on its side? We've been finding out
Unlike all the other planets, which spin roughly upright with their spin axes at close to right angles to their orbits around the sun, Uranus is …
Reflections from a Nobel winner: Scientists need time to make discoveries
In 2018, Professor Donna Strickland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in high-intensity lasers. Her research has been …
The mystery behind radio signals from deep space
Many theories revolve around the origin and nature of fast radio bursts coming to us from far points in the universe. Down To Earth breaks down …
Bibha Chowdhuri – celebrating a forgotten life in physics
Despite working with some of the leading lights of the physics fraternity in India and abroad, Chowdhuri remains an unsung hero of Indian science.
How scientists solved a centuries-old mystery
UK scientists discovered a rare form of star collision
Eminent physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
Hawking theoretically proved that black holes were present as singularities in the cosmic space-time continuum
The passing of scientific threads
India lost two eminent scientists last fortnight. While Yash Pal was a scientific communicator par excellence, P M Bhargava laid the foundation …
Relevance of Srinivasa Ramanujan: the man who knew infinity
December 22 is the birth anniversary of Ramanujan and observed as National Mathematics Day
Quantum computers: how they work
Scientists are achieving major breakthroughs in the construction of computers that will function in a totally new way
Nobel Prize for physics awarded for gravitational waves detection
Scientists Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne, together with Barry Barish, whose effort led to the discovery 100 years it was …
Three scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries on exotic states of matter
Their discoveries have brought about breakthroughs in the theoretical understanding of matter’s mysteries
Gravitational waves detection: Will this signal a new era in understanding the universe?
Detection of gravitational waves can explain why there was a sudden enlargement of the universe, called inflation, in the wee hours of the …
What international scientists have to say on the detection of gravitational waves
The consensus is that the discovery will reveal to us a completely different side of the universe
A new proposal for quantum entanglement between microorganisms
Tongcang Li from Purdue University, USA, and Zhang-qi Yin from Tsinghua University, China, have proposed a new method to teleport the internal …
Nobel Prize for physics honours scientists for work on neutrino metamorphosis
Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo in Japan and Arthur B McDonald of Queen’s University in Canada received the honours
Book launch becomes platform to debunk studies on health risks of cell phone towers
IIT professor and international expert say fear around mobile technology is unscientific
Green tribunal bans sand mining in Kerala, Tamil Nadu sea coast
Order given on petition cites environmental threats and radiation risk from naturally occurring radioactive minerals in beach sand
Nobel in Physics for men who defined time
David Wineland and Serge Haroche awarded
Science & Technology - Briefs
Higgs boson theorists win Nobel Prize for physics
Englert and Higgs theorised on how particles gain mass 50 years ago; it was confirmed by CERN laboratory experiment last year
Pacific garbage patch: scientists find a way to nail ocean polluters
Five major ocean garbage patches identified
Large Hadron Collider’s second phase resumes after technical glitch
World’s largest particle collider that was first started up on September 10, 2008 was shut down for maintenance in 2013
Inventors of blue LEDs win Nobel Prize in physics
Their invention could help provide light to billions of people who still have no access to electricity
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