Nobel Prize

2012’s Nobel Prize for Medicine

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Their work offers an alternative to using embryonic stem cells

The Anonymity Effect

If you look past its author’s name and ‘Nobel prize winner’ appellation, Home is a taut read with a jazzy rhythm—till you reach a revelation that makes you squirm

Fearful Symmetry

Hartosh Singh Bal

Structures once believed to be impossible but used today for non-stick pans have been honoured by this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Nobel Merit in IVF

Hartosh Singh Bal

The opposition Robert G Edwards first faced for his work is a sign of how wrong even the well meaning can be about science.

IQ Books

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What did Nobel laureates read when they were kids?

Why Hayek Matters

Sandipan Deb

To most of us, Hayek means Salma. But the ideas of Nobel Prize-winning economist-philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek are perhaps more relevant today, to the world and to India, than ever before

As Asia’s first Nobel laureate enters his 150th year, it is important to remember that Rabindranath Tagore was far, far more than only a poet. He was a painter, an educationist, a philosopher, a truly global visionary and a political activist of rare moral courage.