While billionaires in the West are busy with the space race and fight over definitions of boundaries, I believe that being in “space” is a state of mind. If you sense the lack of oxygen in...

Retired schoolteacher Subhash Chandra Kundu, who taught physics for free to needy children with merit and had become an institution by himself in North 24-Parganas’ Basirhat, died on Friday nigh...

Since the genome-snipping tool called CRISPR arrived in 2012, it has given scientists power to engineer crops and animals, stirred ethical debates and earned a Nobel Prize. Now, it has hit the headlin...

The head of Jadavpur University’s physics department has written to vice-chancellor Suranjan Das to provide additional rooms for theory and laboratory classes for MSc students “on an urgen...

On the line to Cairo, I talk to Declan Walsh about his very engaging new book, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation, which gives readers “a sense of being there&rdqu...

Hawking inverted the logic of Penrose’s theorem on collapsing matter and theorised that the expanding universe is the result of matter emanating out of a singularity. This singularity is avoidab...

Roger Penrose, who has won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics, had almost a cult following even 14 years back when he had come to Calcutta and delivered a lecture at the Indian Association for t...

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Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bri...

Three scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Briton Roger Penrose will receive h...