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Ashoke Sen gets Physics` highest honour

Last Updated: Thursday, August 2, 2012, 19:32

Indian physicist Ashoke Sen on Thursday received the first Fundamental Physics award for his contribution to the ``String Theory``.

Cloud Physics Lab to gather data on monsoon season

Last Updated: Saturday, June 2, 2012, 13:07

High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory will gather data from the monsoon season on "growth and decay" of clouds under different environmental conditions.

Cloud physics lab to come up at Mahabaleshwar

Last Updated: Friday, May 25, 2012, 13:18

The Rs 35 crore laboratory which will be monitored by Pune-based IITM is the first of its kind aiming to collect data on cloud formation.

Scientists seek partners for medical isotope process

Last Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 08:49

Several companies are in talks with Canadian scientists on commercializing a new method to produce a crucial medical isotope.

A wire one atom tall, four atoms wide `created`

Last Updated: Saturday, January 7, 2012, 13:08

Scientists claim to have created the smallest wires ever developed in silicon -- just one atom tall and four atoms wide.

Women are a mystery to Stephen Hawking

Last Updated: Friday, January 6, 2012, 16:10

Stephen Hawking has revealed that for him women are the only enduring mystery of the universe he has found impossible to crack.

Studies of universe`s expansion win physics Nobel

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 16:48

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Physics may explain crop-circles mystery

Last Updated: Monday, August 1, 2011, 13:52

Crop-circles which appear on farmers` fields, with their gigantic yet intricate patterns, have intrigued scientists and UFO buffs for decades, but with none emerging any wiser.

Gamma-ray observations challenge physics

Last Updated: Friday, July 1, 2011, 17:13

Now, the European Space Agency``s (ESA) Integral gamma-ray observatory has placed stringent new limits on the size of these quantum ‘grains’ in space, showing them to be much smaller than some quantum gravity ideas would suggest.

Five Indian students selected for Physics Olympiad

Last Updated: Monday, May 23, 2011, 14:32

Five meritorious Indian students including a girl were selected Monday to represent the country at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) to be held at Bangkok from July 10-18, a top official said here.

New particle find could upset rules of physics

Last Updated: Monday, April 18, 2011, 17:50

The hitherto undiscovered sub-atomic particle has a mass of about 150 times that of a proton.

World`s first time machine?

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 19:26

Large Hadron Collider could be capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time.