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A scanning tunnelling microscope's image of the individual atoms making up the surface of gold. Credit: Erwinrossen/Wikimedia Commons

Were the ‘Atoms’ of Acharya Kanad a Product of Science or Speculative Metaphysics?

S.K. Arun Murthi 10/03/2017

Kanad's positing the idea of the atom did not...

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Churchill Essay on Aliens Is a Timely Reminder of Dangers Earth Faces

Elizabeth Tasker 18/02/2017

Winston Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar...

Galaxy NGC 1398, photographed by the Dark Energy Survey. Credit: uclmaps/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Centennial: Einstein’s Desperate Mistake, the Cosmological Constant

Vasudevan Mukunth 09/02/2017

There are multiple implications of the cosmological constant that...

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Review: Enrico Fermi, the Quiet ‘Pope’ in a Collapsing World

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/02/2017

The Pope of Physics, by Bettina Hoerlin and Gino...

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A Historian’s Notes On How To Talk About Ancient Science – Indian or Not

Aparajith Ramnath 30/01/2017

To reduce the scientific enterprise to a battle for...

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Unearthing Gujarat’s History, One Figurine At a Time

Aashima Dogra 27/01/2017

Archaeologist Sushmita Sen Pramanik studies the early-historic phase of...

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Knabenphysik At 92: Remembering the Boys’ Club of Early Quantum Mechanics

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/01/2017

Pauli's exclusion principle turns 92 this month. But when...