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Thursday, January 29, 2026
TopicAlbert Einstein

Topic: Albert Einstein

Experiments with untruth in 2024 & Lights! Camera! Meditation!

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Einstein was a fraud, West stole calculus from India’ – mathematician’s claims slammed by peers

C.K. Raju claims 'Church invented Euclid' & 'ganita is practical while mathematics is religious'. Peers say reverting to 'small subset of ideas will be a great step backward'.

3 salty lakes under Mars’ surface raises possibility of life on the red planet

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Einstein’s contempt for peer review wasn’t misplaced, it is something of a lottery

The process of peer review has become inconsistent and subjective to the degree that it is unnervingly close to what you'd expect from purely random selection.

Gandhi never celebrated his birthdays, but made an exception on his 75th. For Kasturba

When a reporter asked Gandhi for his message on the ‘auspicious day’, he declined saying, ‘I am not accustomed to giving messages on such occasions.’

What unfolded when Gandhi met a playwright, a fascist, a comic legend, a Nobel laureate

Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Europe in 1931 proved historic in many ways. He got to meet several iconic personalities whom he wouldn't have otherwise met willingly.

Piyush Goyal, it was Isaac Newton & not Albert Einstein who discovered gravity

Union minister Piyush Goyal has defied our accuracy meter on multiple counts with bizarre ‘gravity’ claim.

2 possible gravitational waves spotted, scientists suspect black hole mergers caused both

Gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space and time caused by cosmic events — were first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916.

A glimpse of starlight in 1919 gave hope for science

The 1919 eclipse generated worldwide headlines and served as a symbol of reconciliation – a demonstration of science transcending nationalism.

Einstein predicted blackholes in the early 1900s but their weirdness stopped him

The recent close-up images of a black hole fall straight from Einstein’s 1915 theory of general relativity.

On Camera

How Djokovic & his luck outplayed opponents in major tournaments—walkovers to retirements

By the 2024 US Open, ESPN noted that Djokovic had advanced via opponent retirements or walkovers 16 times at Majors, the most of any male player in the Open Era.

‘Bottom-up, application-focused’—Economic Survey on how AI should be deployed in India

The survey— tabled Thursday in the Parliament—has emphasised AI deployment while prioritising economic and social impact and aligning with solving real-life problems.

Indian Army ties up with US drone company that made its name in the Ukraine conflict

Shield AI will provide V-BAT vertical takeoff & landing drones along with licences for software, which will be integrated into aircraft and made available to select Indian partners.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.