- The National Science Awards are the country's highest honor for exceptional contributions in the fields of science, technology, and innovation.
- The 2025 edition was the second edition of the National Science Awards.
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- It had four categories – Vigyan Ratna, Vigyan Shri, Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, and Vigyan Team.
- The Vigyan Ratna award was posthumously conferred upon Padma Vibhushan awardee Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar.
- Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar was an Indian astrophysicist and cosmologist who developed the Hoyle-Narlikar theory to integrate gravity and matter creation.
- This provided a framework for a steady-state universe in the 1960s.
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