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Wednesday, December 3, 2025
TopicNobel Prize

Topic: Nobel Prize

Trump’s atomic habits & relaying the baton to your honour!

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

Nobel laureates, Schumpeter, and Shiva point India to the same path — creative destruction

Protecting established entities, resisting change, or prioritising short-term political gains can all lead to stagnation traps. India must embrace creative destruction for prosperity.

Why the Nobel Prize continues to elude India

A nation that boasts of the world’s fourth-largest economy has been unable to bag a single Nobel Prize for nearly a decade, and has remained dry of any in sciences since independence.

2025 Nobel in economics—what the economists did to win the prize

Joel Mokyr identified prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt showcased how new technologies drive productivity by displacing outdated ones.

How did this year’s Chemistry Nobel winners redefine ‘solid matter’? Think ‘Hermione’s handbag’

University of Melbourne professor Richard Robson began initial research into MOFs back in 1974. Idea was further developed by Susuma Kitagawa at Kyoto University & Omar Yaghi at University of California.

How 3 scientists who won physics Nobel brought ‘quantum physics from subatomic world onto chip’

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental demonstration of quantum effects.

Trump repeats claim he ended Indo-Pak ‘war’; says he deserves Nobel prize for ‘ending 7 wars’

Washington: US President Donald Trump has repeated his claims of brokering peace between India and Pakistan earlier this year through trade, stating that he...

Why hasn’t India won Nobel Prize for literature after Independence? Quality of education

In Independent India, state policy has increasingly aggressively, if unintentionally, harmed talents and discouraged independent thought.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s stellar limit was called absurd. It got him 1983 Physics Nobel

No direct observations of any star exceed the Chandrasekhar limit. The theoretical physicist's calculations have helped so far to understand supernovas, neutron stars, and black holes.

On Camera

The politics of air pollution—how they are fooling the citizens

Greens have a sizeable support in the Western countries with clean air and blue skies, but not in India, where poisonous air, water and soil kill millions.

India picks up non-sanctioned Russian oil as discounts widen

The purchases confirm a cautious return to Russian oil, though overall spot purchases remain limited. Trade talks between US and India are ongoing.

India to commission new squadron of submarine-hunting Romeo choppers in Goa later this month

The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.