It is the “second-biggest scientific adventure ever” and India is one of the few countries that have lead role in it. At a 180-hectare site near the Cadarache nuclear research facility in France, scientists
From the safety of a computer screen in the control room, I can see a robot scoop up a chunk of asbestos from the reactor floor. I am at Sellafield, the nuclear complex on the coast of Cumbria in north-west
NEW DELHI: Six Delhi University professors were summoned by a court on Monday to explain their alleged criminal culpability in the death of one person and critical injuries caused to seven others in 2010
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh plans to increase the government's R&D spending and create incentives for the private sector to increase spending on science and technology as well.
At the Indian Science Congress last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to hike R&D expenditures from around $3 billion last year to $8 billion in 2017. The windfall is meant to turbocharge initiatives
The country’s nuclear research programme could get a major fillip with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre proposing to build two new research reactors under the 12th Five Year Plan. The reactors will be
Chi-b(3), A Boson Like the ‘God Particle’, Sighted By Large Hadron Collider Paris: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), famously engaged in the quest for the Higgs boson, has turned up a heavier variant of
Mumbai: India’s top nuke scientist, P K Iyengar, 80, who designed the first atomic bomb which was detonated at Pokhran in 1974, and a staunch opponent of the Indo-US nuclear deal, passed away at the BARC
Few scientists are betting against Einstein yet, but the phantom neutrinos of Opera are still eluding explanation. Two months after scientists reported that they had clocked subatomic particles known
New Delhi: Indian engineers will fabricate the world’s largest high-vacuum cold storage vessel for an ambitious international project to generate energy from a process that powers the sun. The vessel called
