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The Current23:13Cosmologist Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking and the origins of the universeRead transcribed audioAfter finishing his PhD, Thomas Hertog — a close collaborator of Stephen Hawking's — set out on a vacation travelling the Silk…

A mysterious swirl of light seen in the night sky over parts of Alaska, Yukon, and the N.W.T. on the weekend was so odd and striking for those who saw it, it even managed to briefly upstage the aurora borealis.But the spectacular phenomenon…

A prominent Harvard physicist will spend US$1.5 million on an expedition to Papua New Guinea in search of the remnants of a meteor he believes might be an alien probe. The ambitious expedition is being organized by Avi Loeb, the…

Last Updated: January 01, 2023, 11:08 ISTSatyendra Nath Bose Birth Anniversary: Born on January 1, 1894, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, Satyendra Nath Bose is best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a theory about the gas-like…

Tammy Ma was about to board a plane at the San Francisco International Airport when she got the call of a lifetime. She’s a plasma physicist at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world’s largest and most energetic laser. An…

The mysterious changes in phases of matter -- from solid to liquid and back again -- have fascinated Eun-Ah Kim since she was in lower elementary school in South Korea. Without cold drinking water readily available, on hot days the children…

Google Doodle is celebrating the 140th birth anniversary of Romanian physicist Stefania Maracineanu who was one of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity.…

GOOGLE DOODLE TODAY: Internet giant Google on Saturday celebartes Romanian physicist Ștefania Mărăcineanu’s 140th Birthday with a Doodle. Mărăcineanu was one of the pioneering women in the discovery and research of radioactivity. She…

The Google homepage will greet you today with a unique Google Doodle commemorating the day Satyendra Nath Bose sent his quantum formulations to Albert Einstein. Know who this genius Indian mathematician and physicist…

GOOGLE DOODLE TODAY: Saturday’s Google Doodle honours Indian physicist and mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose and his contribution to the Bose-Einstein Condensate. On this day in 1924, he sent his quantum formulations to Albert Einstein who…