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Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment revealed lightning as a form of electricity, a spark that lit up centuries of innovation. (AI-generated Image: DALLE)

How a kite in a lightning storm led to the science behind Wi-Fi and MRI machines

September 29, 2025 3:35 pm

From Franklin’s kite in a storm to Einstein’s special relativity to QED - electromagnetism has gone on to explain everything from lightning to Wi-Fi, MRI machines and the power grid.

Is the universe halfway to its end? New theory predicts a Big Crunch in 33 billion years

July 27, 2025 8:57 am

Fresh data from major sky surveys suggests that dark energy, the force pushing our universe apart, might be evolving. This could mean the universe isn’t expanding forever but instead may one day collapse in on itself.

Jayant Narlikar being bestowed with the Ranade award in Pune in 2019.

How renowned cosmologist Jayant Narlikar helped build the steady-state theory of the universe

May 21, 2025 11:43 am

Cosmologist Jayant Narlikar Contribution: Narlikar’s main contribution was in modifying Einstein’s general relativity equations in a manner consistent with the creation of new matter in the universe.

Schrödinger’s cat, alive and dead, remains the most famous metaphor for quantum uncertainty. (AI generated Image/DALLE)

The universe, the atom, and a cat both dead and alive: Understanding Quantum Mechanics

June 01, 2025 8:08 am

The classical scientific theories by which we understand the world around us do not hold good at the subatomic level. There, reality is governed by probabilities, and particles exist both as waves and particles. Read more about quantum mechanics - and about one of the most legendary scientific debates of the modern era.

Einstein: Letters reveal legendary scientist's love of women

December 18, 2024 7:49 pm

Albert Einstein loved life — and women. Letters that are now being auctioned at Christie's bear witness to this.

Albert Einstein's relativity theory reconfirmed: gravity behaves same across billions of light years, says new study

November 21, 2024 4:13 pm

Among the researchers was an Indian team led by Shadab Alam from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Einstein's birth anniversary: When the scientist wrote to Nehru for support on Israel, and he refused

March 16, 2024 6:49 pm

Einstein wrote to Nehru on June 13, 1947, underlining the reasons India should support Israel. Nehru wrote back on July 11, 1947, with a polite but firm no. Here are excerpts from the two letters.

Einstein and the Bomb movie review: A poor attempt by Netflix to piggyback on the popularity of Oppenheimer

February 22, 2024 8:03 am

Einstein and the Bomb movie review: Cheaply made and not particularly insightful, the new Netflix historical docudrama claims to be fact-based but relies mostly on silly reenactments.

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Unpacking Oppenheimer's cordial yet complicated relationship with Albert Einstein, who once called him a 'fool' for not turning his back on the US govt

July 24, 2023 9:00 am

When Oppenheimer was put under scrutiny due to his alleged communist affiliations, Albert Einstein stood by his side. But he later referred to Oppenheimer as "a fool".

The universe's hum and an opportunity to explore

July 07, 2023 10:07 pm

Whatever the ultimate origin of what is being called the “hum” of the universe by the press, it is clear that these nanohertz waves would, in future, allow us to explore the earliest universe