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Abdus Salam, Nobel Prizes, Nobel Prize for physics, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Ahmadiya sect, theoretical physics, Trieste, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Enrico Fermi, Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan, Lahore, Srinivasa Ramanujan, electroweak theory, electroweak unification theory, CP symmetry,

Abdus Salam in Pakistan: Prejudice Poisons the Well of Knowledge

Pervez Hoodbhoy 07/08/2021

As with Salam, nothing in Lahore acknowledges the existence...

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COVID-19 Vaccination: Gap Between Male and Female Recipients Narrows

Reuters 04/08/2021

Men have received 13% more vaccine doses than women...

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Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Jessica Riskin 02/08/2021

The word 'robot' made its first appearance in a...

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Skyglow Forces Dung Beetles in Cities To Abandon the Milky Way as Their Compass

James Foster 01/08/2021

An omnipresent sheet of light across the night sky...

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Powers of Hearing: The Military Science of Sound Location

Gascia Ouzounian 01/08/2021

During WWI the act of hearing was recast as...

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We Must Include More Women in Physics – It Would Help the Whole of Humanity

Cathy Foley, Prajval Shastri and Sarah Maddison 31/07/2021

Despite the deeply ingrained challenges, there are some signs...

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A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment

Sherryl Vint 26/07/2021

Wanuri Kahiu’s important short film 'Pumzi', depicting the regeneration...