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Govt-supported institutes, private universities, and faculty fellowships are key drivers of advanced scientific research and education in India. Fellowships provide salary, research funds, and access to facilities for a fixed period. Institutes benefit from the funds and teaching contributions of fellows. Despite benefits, fellows face challenges in obtaining office/lab space,…

Vinutha J., daughter of a daily wage earner, emerged topper in Bangalore University with eight gold medals and three cash prizes. With her achievement, she has fulfilled her father’s dream, who wanted her to excel in academics and become a teacher

Even when they entered the workforce in droves, overtook men in educational attainment, did not congregate in “female jobs,” and did not drop out from the labour force to have children, women continued to earn less than men.

The public sector in countries like India should build more capacity in research and development as this would help to evolve effective public policies, Charles Edquist of Lund University, Sweden, said on Saturday.

In a rare feat of its kind, seven faculty members and scientists from KLE Technological University (KLETU), Hubballi, have made it to the list of top 2% of most influential scientists in the world released by Stanford University for 2023.

Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work

The flaws of the awards, seen by the public as the only game in town, are hindering the pursuit of innovation, says astronomer royal Martin Rees

The recognition of Goldin’s pay gap analysis is empowering for all of us, but depressingly, her gender is still more newsworthy, says journalist Josie Cox

A flash of light lasting an attosecond, or 0.000000000000000001 of a second, is an extremely short pulse of light

There’s something to the notion that Nobel winners create less thereafter, says scientist Paul Nurse

In an exclusive interview, Sheryl Sandberg talks to Sheila Flynn about how Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, has spent decades doing work on women’s labor that “really matters”