The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project announces today that all of the scientific authorities of the TMT partners have signed a Master Agreement. The Master Agreement document establishes a formal agreement amongst the ...

Two destructive earthquakes within a week of each other, the first with a 7.5 magnitude on the Iran-Pakistan border, on April 16, and the second measuring 5.6 in eastern Afghanistan last Wednesday, were unsettlingly felt ...

October 18 was the birth centenary of the Physics Nobel Prize winner for 1983 S Chandrasekhar. The astrophysicist has come to be known for the Chandrasekhar limit, which concerns a class of stars called white dwarfs. The ...

CHEMISTRY NOBELS In the International Year of Chemistry, C Sivaram charts the Nobel prize winning achievements in the field, from work on synthesis of sugars to vitamin chemistry.