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Importance of Abhijit Banerjee's Nobel Prize
19 Oct 2019
Indian-origin American economist Abhijit Banerjee shared this year's Nobel prize for economics with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their randomised control trial experiment approach to rid the…
Sandipan Talukdar
How Radical Scientists of the 70s Combined Science and Politics
10 Oct 2018
With the 1970s witnessing huge anti-war sentiments and feminist movements, radical scientists activists in both Britain and the USA formed science groups which considered that science cannot be…
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US Nobel Winner, Who Sold His Medal to Meet Medical Bills, Dies
06 Oct 2018
Leon Lederman had to auction his Nobel medal for physics to meet sky-high healthcare costs.
Mayank Chhaya
Message of Dr. Abdus Salam Docu: 'Intolerance is Damaging to Human Spirit, Soul', Says Director
13 Feb 2018
The younger generation of Pakistan has suffered the most and science in general has taken a back seat as a result of Salam being exiled.
IANS
Pablo Neruda Didn't Die of Cancer: Experts
21 Oct 2017
A global team of experts have said that Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda's death was was not due to cancer.
Subodh Varma
Thaler’s Economics Nobel: A Nudge Towards Neoliberal Economics
11 Oct 2017
He gets the Prize for developing a whole new model and policy tools for managing the poor and deprived people under neoliberal regimes.
Surangya Kaur
Technological Advancements and a Belief in Basic Science: The Story of the Nobel Chemistry Prize 2017
07 Oct 2017
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year has been awarded to scientists who developed, for the first time, a technique to visualise biomolecules in their natural configuration.
Satyajit Rath, Gargeya Telakapalli
This Year's Nobel Celebrates Scholarship in Science for Its Own Sake
06 Oct 2017
With the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine of 2017, the Nobel assembly is asking natural scientists to work on “nationally relevant problems”.
Surangya Kaur
Nobel Prize Rewards Individuals, But Scientific Discoveries Now Happen at an Industrial Scale
05 Oct 2017
The decision of the Nobel Committee to award individuals rather than teams ignores international collaborations and industrial scale efforts required for modern scientific discoveries.
Prabir Purkayastha
CRISPR: Good Science or Evil Science?
28 Jan 2016
A three-year old technology of gene editing called CRISPR is now the focus of two major disputes. The disputes are: who (or which team) will get the Nobel prize for this discovery, and the other, the…