Tag: Science

If receiving a Nobel prize is the highest recognition for a scientist, being awarded twice by the Swedish Academy of Sciences is...

There are of course different versions of the same story, anyway, the main point in the parable was that each of the blind persons had attempted to describe the elephant on the basis of the evidence he could gather.

Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon...

If Homeopathy and Vaasthu are regarded as pseudosciences on earth, then Astrology, the third pseudoscience, literally hits the sky.

Nobel Laureate, Sir Peter Medawar, one of the greatest biologists of the previous century, states that one of the properties that set the genuine sciences, apart from those that arrogate to themselves the title, without really earning it, is their predictive capability.

If confirmed planet K2-18B will be the only exoplanet known to have both water in its atmosphere and temperatures that could sustain liquid water on a rocky surface.

Curiosity and awe have greeted a complete lunar eclipse, the longest one of this century and visible across much of the world. The so-called...

History is replete with several examples of scientists stumbling upon some discovery by sheer accident. There has been a great deal of speculation not only...

Stephen Hawking, who died recently, was a brilliant star in astrophysics who should have been awarded the Nobel Prize. By not having awarded the world's...