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Science academia loses a visionary physicist and an educationist
Prof H C Pradhan, a renowned physicist and educator, passed away at 79, leaving a lasting legacy in science education and research.
Updated on Dec 29, 2024 07:24 AM IST
Madhav Rajwade
Mind craft: Brain researcher Shubha Tole discusses embryos, dreams and dance
Exactly how does the brain take shape? Tole has won awards for her efforts to answer that question. She is now set to head the global brain research body IBRO.
Updated on Nov 30, 2024 05:28 PM IST
TIFR neuroscientist first from developing world to head global neuroscience body
Tole completed her BSc from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and is recipient of the Infosys Science Foundation Award for Life Sciences in 2014
Updated on Oct 16, 2024 09:51 AM IST
Vigyan Yuva awardee Vivek Polshettiwar: From carbon dioxide to fuel using gold
The nanomaterial he has designed converts yellow gold into black gold, which captures carbon dioxide and converts it into fuel using energy from sunlight.
Published on Aug 23, 2024 03:20 PM IST
IIT-B, TIFR profs bag awards for their work in biosciences, nanocatalysis
Srivastava was honoured with the Vigyan Shri award, one of four prestigious categories, for making significant advancements in medical diagnostic devices, nanoengineered materials, and photothermal cancer therapy in 2024, as a professor in the department of biosciences and bioengineering at IIT-B
Updated on Aug 08, 2024 07:10 AM IST
Indian astronomers discover 34 new Giant Radio Sources using GMRT
The GRSs are among the largest objects in the universe and their enormous size and rarity has puzzled astronomers as to how they grew to such a gigantic size
Updated on Aug 02, 2024 07:28 AM IST
Indian astronomers reveal rare type of millisecond pulsar
Pulsars are like cosmic lighthouses, beaming out radio signals as they spin extremely fast, as much as several hundreds of rotations around their axis in a second. Some of these pulsars are rotating hundreds of times per second – those are millisecond pulsars
Updated on Jul 19, 2024 05:32 AM IST
How to bridge India’s gender gap in STEM
While we applaud successful women, we must also invest in policies to counterbalance the conflicting messages our culture imposes on girls.
Updated on Apr 01, 2023 05:53 PM IST
Shubha Tole