Union Budget 2020-21: Quantum computing gets funds

Rs 8,000 crore over 5 years may go some way to help Indian researchers catch up with a dast-evolving global scene

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

Science & Technology - Briefs

New particle resembling Higgs boson found

More data needed to confirm if its Higgs boson; Indian researchers played a major role in the discovery of the elusive particle

Trio win physics Nobel for studying universe's expansion

The laureates studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae and made the discovery

New goals set for CERN's Large Hadron Collider

After the quest for Higgs Boson, next set of experiments at the LHC will be to test the theory that predicts a whole range of particles that haven&…

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