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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

Iraq’s long road to FIFA World Cup qualification is a story of survival, defiance

Historically, football has been used as a lens through which political anger, identity, and resistance come into focus. From Mohun Bagan to Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast, this claim can be easily cemented.

What to expect from China’s new 5-year plan—trade innovation, tensions with partners

ASEAN is struggling against a flood of 'underpriced Chinese goods', while Brazil has imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.