Nobel Prize

(L-R) Meghnad Saha, Mohandas Gandhi and Satyendra Nath Bose. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Why Gandhi, Meghnad Saha and Satyendra Nath Bose Didn’t Win the Nobel Prize

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/10/2018

Though the Nobel Prizes may rank among the most...

Tasuku Honjo (left) and James P. Allison. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Credit for the Nobel Prize medallion: robynmack96/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

2018 Medicine Nobel Prize: Who Are James Allison and Tasuku Honjo?

The Wire Staff 01/10/2018

Allison's and Honjo's work focuses on proteins inside our...

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony underway at the Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Boston. Credit: Improbable Research

Infinite in All Directions: Will an Indian Win the Ig Nobel Prize by 2035?

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/09/2018

The ideas that win the Ig Nobel Prizes may...

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Infinite in All Directions: How Do You Figure If Homosexuality Is ‘Natural’?

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/09/2018

Calling homosexuality "unnatural" suggests we know or assume that...

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Infinite in All Directions: Singularities in Science, Absolute Hot and Others

Vasudevan Mukunth 01/09/2018

Every day we get more proof that primacy may...

How does our world work on a subatomic level? Credit: Varsha Y S, CC BY-SA

Standard Model – the Absolutely Amazing Theory of Almost Everything

Glenn Starkman 03/06/2018

Every attempt to overturn this theory to demonstrate in...

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How Cut-Throat Competition Forces Scientists to Act Against the Collective

Vasudevan Mukunth 01/05/2018

The paucity of three types of resources in the...