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What Erwin Schrödinger Said About the Upanishads

Viraj Kulkarni 05/09/2020

Schrödinger was deeply moved by the Upanishads. He discussed...

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First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

Jatan Mehta 04/11/2019

The twin Voyagers' observations have given us our first...

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They Kicked Electrons With a Laser This Way. The Electrons Flowed the Other Way.

Sagnik Ghosh 05/09/2019

Physicists set up a simple experiment and stumbled on...

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How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon

Margarita Safonova 09/06/2019

Some people believe we never went to the Moon...

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Using Ultrafast Laser, ‘Mini’ Particle Accelerator Sets New Energy Record

Vasudevan Mukunth 28/02/2019

Smaller accelerators will be more affordable. In the hands...

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A Mystery Particle That Seems to Threaten Our Understanding of Physical Reality

Roger Barlow 08/11/2018

Scientists at Cern's Large Hadron Collider have seen something...

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Chemistry Nobel for Microscopes That Can ‘See’ the Atoms of Life

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2017

Jacquet Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson optimised the...