Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel have been jointly awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their groundbreaking discoveries in light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a method revolutionising the study of brain function.
Former Australian captain Kim Hughes feels rejection of John Howard's candidacy for the ICC vice-president's post has proved that cricket's governing body is a "dysfunctional" organisaton easily swayed by India's financial might.
Two American scientists and one from Germany have won the Nobel prize for chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.
Namrata Thakker picks her 10 favourite Leo movies.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 was awarded jointly to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"
Dr Sangeeta N Bhatia, director, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been chosen to the newest class of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
However, scientists peering into the DNA of people from Asia, Africa and Europe found that large segments of their DNA varied greatly. Scientists now believe that people may differ by 10-12 percent genetically.
Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon have won for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Martin Scorsese may work together in Internal Affairs, a remake of three Chinese gangster films, Wu Jian Dao.
Coming of age, cyclones, conscience, cubicles, catchwords for OTT this week.
Australia cricketer Phillip Hughes remains in an induced coma after undergoing emergency surgery on Tuesday when he was struck in the head by a bouncer, a devastating blow that experts likened to the trauma experienced by car crash victims.
In a breakthrough, an Indian-American scientist at the prestigious MIT has developed a simple, cheap, paper test that could improve cancer diagnosis rates and help people get treated earlier.
Researchers have found that the smell of food could play an important role in how the body processes calories.
James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize 2013 on Monday for solving the mystery of how the cell organises its transport system. The winners will share equally the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor (USD 1.25 million), reduced because of the economic crisis last year from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
Emotions were still too raw in the wake of the death of Phillip Hughes to make a decision on whether to go ahead with next week's first Test against India, Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said on Friday.
Rediff.com gives you a peek into these action-packed moments from the weekend, frozen in time...
'We hope the boys can find the inner strength to play the game in the way Phillip would have wanted in Adelaide' 'We left a bit of heart in Macksville yesterday'
The veteran comedienne passed away at the age of 81 on September 5.
A team led by Kolkata-born scientists has discovered a special sweet spot in the eye plays a crucial role in humans being able to to focus on computer screens and also read, an ability which is unique to Homo sapiens.
The 78th Annual Golden Globe awards have been announced. A quick look at the winners.
The nominations for the Golden Globes have been announced.
Watch the trailers and predict the winner at the end.
Australia will be forced to blood an entirely new opening partnership in Bangladesh next month after David Warner was ruled out of the two-Test series with a broken finger on Friday.
'Before Shastri's induction, things were sketchy and it was not known who was responsible for taking cricketing decisions around the team. The selectors chose a squad of players, the captain ran the show on the field and the coaches helped draft plans, or sort of tried to. There needed to be one man who could coordinate all elements around the squad -- someone who had the backing of the Board, the respect of the players and that of the support staff.'
The award function was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
These are the people who could damage your organisation in possibly irreparable ways.
If anyone thinks that the Golden Globes are insignificant, the Hollywood studios are out to prove them wrong.
Celebrating 50 years of a timeless Hollywood classic.
'The summer of 1857 saw violence, perpetrated by the Indians and the Britons, on an unprecedented scale.' 'Never before and never after in the history of British rule in India was there violence at the level that 1857 witnessed.'
