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Worlds between theory and experiment

Dec 6, 2025 5 min read

Once Isaac Newton showed that a single gravitational law plus his rules of dynamics could reproduce the orbits of planets that Johannes Kepler had predicted, explain tides on Earth, and predict that a…

Caste, and science's notability threshold

Jul 11, 2020 4 min read

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A webinar by The Life of Science on the construct of the 'scientific genius' just concluded, with Gita Chadha and Shalini Mahadev, a PhD scholar at HCU, as panellists. It was an hour long and…

Cabinet approves India-based Neutrino Observatory

Jan 5, 2015 3 min read

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On Monday, the Prime Minister's Office gave the go ahead for the India-based Neutrino Observatory, an underground physics experiment that will study particles called atmospheric neutrinos. The pro…