Physics

Laurent Simons, an 11-year-old boy has completed his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Antwerp, which makes him the world’s second-youngest graduate. Hailing from the Belgian coastal town of Ostend, the kid aims to achieve “immortality.” “I want to be able to replace as many body parts as possible with mechanical parts,” he says. Besides, he received his higher… read-more

The All India Council for Technical Education has notified that aspiring engineering students would not necessarily require Mathematics and Physics in class 12 to apply for B.E. and B.Tech programmes. As per the AICTE's 2021-22 approval process handbook, students will instead need 45% scores in three out of a 14-subject list, including Computer Science and Business Studies among others. For this, it further provisioned that universities will… read-more

The coveted Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2020 has been awarded to three scientists for two different discoveries. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Roger Penrose for discovering “that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”. Penrose, who works as a professor at the… read-more