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Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair." The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work "has provided fundamental knowledge of how a ...

The Nobel Prize 2015 in Physiology or Medicine jointly went to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu. Mr. Campbell and Mr. Omura won it for "their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites", while ...

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Japanese scientist Takaaki Kajita and Canadian scientist Arthur B. McDonald for their discovery of neutrino oscillations, "which shows that neutrinos have mass." According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, ...

The Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani, on Wednesday highlighted the need for reorientation in Sanskrit research, and urged scholars to take the lead in popularising and improving the standard of Sanskrit education. Speaking at the fifth convocation ceremony of ...

A homemade alarm clock built out of an extraordinary choice of materials got the 14 year old Ahmed Mohamed suspended from his suburban Dallas high school. He was detained and handcuffed by police officers after the school officials accused him of ...

IIT Madras invites applications for for Research Scholarships 2016 for students pursuing their regular, direct, interdisciplinary, external/part-time Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) and Master of Science (M.S) programmes offered for the January-May and July-November sessions 2016. IIT Madras Research Scholarships 2016 Details: ...

The Berhampur University has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the University of Groningen, Netherlands, for cooperation and exchange of fellows in research in areas of mutual academic interest. University of Groningen has a department on comparative study of religion, ...

Anna University has invited applications for Anna Centenary Research Fellowships (ACRF) 2016. The scholarships are awarded for students pursuing their full time Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) program for the session January, 2016. Details of Anna Centenary Research Fellowships 2016In order to ...

Washington, April 13: Making a strong pitch for the use of iPads in kindergarten schools, a Northwestern University researcher has found children in classes with shared iPads significantly outscored their peers on achievement tests who were in classes that had no ...

University of Auckland has invited applications for Health Research Doctoral scholarships for the 2015 session. Interested candidates must apply on or before November 1. Scholarship details Total no. of scholarships: 3 The students will be provided ...

Jammu, March 26: For welfare of the tribal community in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government is planning to start a tribal research centre at the Kashmir University. "Besides three co-education schools for the tribal, we would start a tribal ...

New Delhi: With an aim of encouraging research scholars to study various aspects of North East India, Delhi University is soon going to launch a North East India Studies Programme (NEISP). The research programme, which will be a fully funded ...

Dehradun, March 14: Properly channelising energies of the youth and inspiring them for nation building is the first and foremost responsibility of higher education institutions in the country, Uttarakhand Governor K K Paul said. "In just a few ...

Jammu, March 14: Governor N N Vohra will inaugurate the 10th Jammu and Kashmir Science Congress at the University of Jammu today. "The Chancellor of the University and Governor of J&K N N Vohra will inaugurate the 10th JK Science ...