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Betzig, Moerner, Hell win 2014 Nobel prize for chemistry

Betzig, Moerner, Hell win 2014 Nobel prize for chemistry

Rediff.com8 Oct 2014

Two American scientists and one from Germany have won the Nobel prize for chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.

Scientists solve 14-yr-old Saturn 'water mystery'

Scientists solve 14-yr-old Saturn 'water mystery'

Rediff.com28 Jul 2011

Planetary scientists claim they have finally solved a 14-year mystery by discovering the source of the water in Saturn's upper atmosphere. =

How 3 couples survived the 5-year-itch

How 3 couples survived the 5-year-itch

Rediff.com17 Jun 2009

She's not social, he parties hard; she's disorganised, he's a neat freak. Marriage, the married would say, is a union of contradictions. We got four couples who've survived the five-year-itch to renew their vows, adding just one small clause for their spouses to follow.

15% COVID-19 deaths related to air pollution: Study

15% COVID-19 deaths related to air pollution: Study

Rediff.com27 Oct 2020

The results are based on epidemiological data collected up to third week in June 2020 and the researchers say a comprehensive evaluation will need to follow after the pandemic has subsided.

What Will Modi's Scientific Advisor Do?

What Will Modi's Scientific Advisor Do?

Rediff.com13 May 2022

Dr Ajay Kumar Sood will have to complete a task his predecessor started: Getting the government to sign off on a new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy on which work was begun in 2020.

Roger Penrose, 2 others share Physics Nobel for black hole research

Roger Penrose, 2 others share Physics Nobel for black hole research

Rediff.com6 Oct 2020

The Nobel Assembly on Tuesday said in a tweet, 'The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.'

Super 30 founder invited to speak at German university

Super 30 founder invited to speak at German university

Rediff.com24 Nov 2015

Anand will also interact with the Indian and German students at the Technical University of Chemnitz.

NASA spacecraft beams new images of dwarf planet Ceres

NASA spacecraft beams new images of dwarf planet Ceres

Rediff.com20 Jan 2015

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a series of new images of the dwarf planet Ceres, showing tantalising detail of the mysterious world's surface.

Skymet vs IMD: Who will get the monsoon forecast right?

Skymet vs IMD: Who will get the monsoon forecast right?

Rediff.com22 May 2015

The official India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the private Skymet Weather Services have made widely divergent monsoon forecasts.

Indian American selected for $250,000 Cherry Teaching Award

Indian American selected for $250,000 Cherry Teaching Award

Rediff.com27 Dec 2013

One of the first things Meera Chandrasekhar noticed at Brown University, where she was enrolled in the doctorate program in physics, was that there were just three women and some two dozen men.

Modi open to DNA test on Netaji's ashes

Modi open to DNA test on Netaji's ashes

Rediff.com1 Feb 2016

'The extended Bose family is insisting that the Japanese government must release all the information they have on Bose's ashes. It cannot be forgotten that Bose was in Japanese care when his 'death' occurred. Ultimately, it is the Japanese who hold the secret about what happened to him.'

Why History is more important now than ever before

Why History is more important now than ever before

Rediff.com26 Oct 2017

'Studying History, we come close to all of the messiness of human life -- we understand what motivates people, what makes them get along or go to war, what dreams they had for themselves and their futures.'

The Stephen Hawking I knew

The Stephen Hawking I knew

Rediff.com22 Mar 2018

When I met him last year for his 75th birthday, he seemed frail. There was a sense of urgency. I will miss Stephen. His passing fills me with sadness.