The nonagenarian Higgs, who passed away last week in Edinburgh, had expressed displeasure that he alone received the fanfare for the Higgs boson.
A recent study suggests that the binary star system, HD 148937, hosted a triplet of stars until a few millions of years ago.
As the total solar eclipse becomes visible when it streaks past North America, 'citizen scientists' are at work, beaming radio signals to support scientific experiments.
Strickland helped realize a novel mechanism through which ultrashort and intense laser pulses could be emitted safely.
Joseph Rotblat was once associated with the Manhattan Project, which led to the invention of nuclear weapons. But what made him change his heart to quit...
Shuji Nakamura's journey inventing blue LED is an example of a 'high risk, but high reward' strategy for scientific innovation. Moreover, it lends a sneak-peek at...
Massive stars in the Orion nebula exert intense radiation pressures to drive gas out from a young star system still forming planets.
Quantum computer is without a real world problem to solve, says Google. So Google and XPRIZE incentivized practical research efforts with this competition - that can...
Meet the enigmatic British physicist who combined quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
A white dwarf star was spotted pulling up orbital debris, transfixing the metal fragments with its powerful magnetic field.