Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research

Govt-run research institute TIFR to pay staff only 50% salary for February due to 'insufficient funds'

A former TIFR staffer said the pay cut decision will impact the around 3,000 employees, students and post-doctoral fellows of the research institute in Mumbai and other centres.

New gamma ray telescope coming up in Ladakh to observe exploding stars, black holes

The telescope will the second in the world to function in both, bright and moon-lit environments.

Women in Science: Sreelaja Nair on learning about the early stages of life, working with zebrafish

Embryologist Sreelaja Nair talks about the research she conducts at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, to understand how life begins from a single cell

Women in Science: Inside Sreelaja Nair's 'fish facility' where she studies life's early stages

Sreelaja Nair set up her lab at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research from scratch. She now does extensive work in the field of embryology

IMSc Chennai's 'Science at the sabha' is an unusual approach to popularising science

For the past 2 years, a group of scientists at IMSc has been holding a programme of popular lectures on scientific topics at the city's Music Academy

A 5,000 year old carving of what could be a supernova has been unearthed in Kashmir

The figure shows two bright objects in the sky with rays of light coming out of them and a hunter spearing an animal below the first object.

Superconductivity observed in much smaller nanoparticles than previously believed possible

Thus, our result indicates that it may be possible to allow superconductivity to occur in structurally engineered nanoparticles at sizes much lower than previously imagined!

IIT Kharagpur to collaborate with Rochester University to open up development of quantum devices

Calling it a path-breaking research, an IIT Kharagpur statement had said that it has opened up possibilities for the development of quantum devices.

LIGO-Virgo detects colliding neutron stars for first time: We are entering new era in observational astronomy, says A Gopakumar

LIGO and Virgo interferometer on Monday announced the first ever detection of gravitational waves from a pair of colliding neutron stars.

All over a cuppa: Chai and Why brings Sundays alive with snippets of science

Chai and Why is a TIFR-run forum, which meets every alternate weekend to discuss scientific issues in a ‘science café’ format. It has been running for almost 9 years now