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Medicine Nobel Prize for Doctors Who Discovered How Body Senses Low Oxygen

The Wire Staff 07/10/2019

This year’s prizes in the medicine category continue a...

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Abdus Salam the Physicist Won the Nobel Prize. Salam the Pakistani Elevated it.

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/10/2019

If political opportunism hadn't contrived until the end to...

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Piyush Goyal’s Gravity Comment Earned Its Ridicule for Sidelining Math

Kamal Datta 25/09/2019

Physical reality is very strange, and we cannot comprehend...

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Science is Deeply Imaginative. Why is This Treated As a Secret?

Tom McLeish 22/09/2019

The first mode of visual imagination is, of course,...

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How Astronomers Use Ginormous Natural Lenses to Study Distant Space Explosions

Suhail Dhawan 10/08/2019

Light bends around massive objects in space, so astronomers...

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Don’t Let the Event Horizon Steal the Limelight, Save Some for the Ergosphere

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/04/2019

Many think the event horizon is a wondrous region...

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A Brief History of Black Holes

Ronak Gupta 17/04/2019

Black hole research started off as a purely theoretical...