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TopicHiggs boson

Topic: Higgs boson

‘Don’t call it god particle’—physicist Ashutosh Kotwal keeps science & spirituality separate

In ‘Beyond the Higgs Boson’, Manik Kotwal writes about her son and physicist Ashutosh Kotwal, whose work is crucial to the study of particle physics.

Working to keep science above politics amid Ukraine war, says CERN scientist Archana Sharma

CERN scientist says next major LHC upgrade scheduled after 2025 will be a big opportunity for Indian scientists, engineers and industries.

Why US Fermilab’s findings on ‘muons’ could change the laws of physics as we know them

Fermilab finds that tiny subatomic particle seems to disobey ‘Standard Model’ of physics, but another paper says findings are within theoretical calculations based on this model.

CERN scientist Archana Sharma says Indian girls need more female role models in STEM

CERN scientist Archana Sharma, who was part of the team that discovered Higgs Boson in 2012, tells ThePrint what brings her back to India every 6 weeks.

Get a glimpse of the Big Bang, explore LIGO as CERN brings travelling exhibit to India

For the first time, Geneva-based CERN is bringing its flagship travel science exhibition to India, which will be on show in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Delhi.

A bigger Hadron Collider can wait & the money put in other scientific endeavours

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder advocates it might not be a bad idea to take time to rethink the next big step in science, while saving money that could go to other scientific endeavours. 

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.