Steven Weinberg's four tips for aspiring scientists
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) was an American physicist who worked alongside Pakistani physicist Abdus Salam to unify electromagnetic and wea...
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What motivated them to become physicists?
While several physicists like James Clerk Maxwell , John von Neumann and Lev Landau were child prodigies, most of the scientific greats dev...
Hawking's black hole theorem confirmed by gravitational waves
A black hole has often been portrayed as the ultimate villain in sci-fi movies due to its mysterious nature. From the death of a large-eno...
Einstein's handwritten letter with E=mc² fetches $1.2 million at auction
Set up at a base price of $400,000, the letter containing Einstein's most well known formula has sold for $1.2 million at an auction co...
Top Ten Amazing Physics Stories of 2020
Believe it or not but 2020 was full of many extraordinary and rare scientific events, which took the world by storm. Here is a summary of th...
Andrea Ghez Becomes The Fourth Woman To Win Nobel Prize In Physics
In 1903, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on spontaneous radiation as discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel in 1896...
Mathematician Roger Penrose Wins Nobel Prize In Physics
American theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, had once said: "Mathematicians are only dealing with the structure of the reasoning an...
First Mega Physics Festival in India
After making brief stoppages in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata in 2019, the first official large-scale physics festival (mainly on CERN ...
Astronomers Win Nobel Prize in Physics
At the time when astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was expanding (by calculating the speeds at which the galaxies we...
A Brief History of Black Holes
In 1915, more than one hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published a theory of space and time or "spacetime" to be exact. On...
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