The Nobels and the Age Problem

Science is a young person's game.An award to a young scientist could free up that person to do productive work, or help win more grants by enhancing reputation, argues Devangshu Datta. IMAGE: Sir......

Guj scientist denied entry into US Garba over 'non-Hindu name'

An expat scientist from Gujarat has tweeted that he and his friends were denied entry into a Garba dance event in Atlanta in the United States after organisers allegedly said that their last names......

The genius who discovered how stars live and die

The LIGO announcement -- which confirmed, among other things, that gold, platinum and other heavy metals were products of neutron star collisions -- came just before Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's......

US trio win Nobel Physics for gravitational waves

Three Americans have won the Nobel prize in physics for the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.......