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We’re Finally Getting to Know the Secrets of Neutron Stars as Well

Prakash Chandra 22/04/2020

Are neutron stars – the incredibly dense, burnt-out cores...

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A Hundred Years Later, it’s Still All Relative

Ghanashyam Date 12/09/2019

It's one hundred years since Albert Einstein readied his...

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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...

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After Another Year, Finding Solace in Our Subjective Experience of Time

Vasudevan Mukunth 31/12/2018

Of what value is an 8 am on a...

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Seven of the Fishiest ‘Science’ Claims Indians Made in 2016

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/12/2016

The claims, and their popularisation, were further hobbled by...

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A Non-challenge to the Special Theory of Relativity

Vasudevan Mukunth 12/03/2016

It's impossible to call out all the specious claims...