A Japanese mathematician may have finally cracked 'the abc conjecture'-- one of the world's most complex mathematical theories. Shinichi Mochizuki, a scholar at Kyoto University, has released four......
Akhil Mathew, an 18-year-old resident of Madison, New Jersey, on Tuesday night won the third place in the Intel Science Talent Search, America's oldest and most prestigious pre-college science......
Injecting Beauty of Science in TeachingDear teachers and friends, my greetings to all of you. I am delighted to talk to you on this happy occasion of Teachers' Day. This is the day of remembrance......
Three is often the largest number written with as many lines as the number represents. To this day it is written as three vertical lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the Indians......
Gold is exhibiting all the classic signs of being in a structural bull market. In the past year, we've seen gold go up on fears of inflation, then it rose on fears of deflation. The woes of the......
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 184 points at 19,547. After dropping to a low of 19,447, the index zoomed to a high of 19,619 on fresh buying in energy and technology stocks. The Sensex......
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 133 points at 19,136. Volatility in early trades saw the index pare gains and drop to a low of 19,007. The index, thereafter, moved up as the day......
There's a calculus to knitting. An untamed batch of wool gets twisted and fed into a spinning wheel, a wooden contraption about as high-tech as an abacus, that binds the fibers into a single strand......
Never before, in any currency, has there been a tender that answers to an odd square integer nine. Indian Cinema Factory has come out with a movie called Onbathu Roopai Nottu (Nine Rupee Note) and......
With V V S Laxman unpadding, looks like cricket has seen the last of the touch artistes, says M P Anil Kumar. That I could never watch Gundappa Viswanath bat live would remain a regret for life.......
As a game, cricket is a data cruncher's delight. Each game of cricket throws up loads of player-specific statistics on averages, strike rates, nature of dismissals, and so on. I have been studying......