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Funds provided by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) supported the research carried out by five of all 2011 Nobel Prize laureates. This is great moment for the Foundation, which has a long-standing tradition with supporting research that is both relevant and applicable at a large scale.
Three of the five NSF... |
12 October 2011
05:09 GMT |
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in a press release issued on October 10 that the winners of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2011 will go to economists Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims.
The two were awarded the famous prize “for their emp... |
11 October 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Graphene is one of the materials expected to revolutionize technology as a whole, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer figured he may as well make a hefty investment into the research efforts.
No matter how good an idea, it just never gets to the point where it can help society advance if there is no money backing... |
7 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Today, October 7, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize will be split evenly between three activists, “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”
The three winners are Ellen Johnson... |
7 October 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Officials from the Nobel Foundation announced today, October 6, that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature will go to Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.”
The author was one of two favorites in the race to win this ... |
6 October 2011
09:45 GMT |
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According to an announcement made yesterday, October 5, by representatives from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to investigator Dan Shechtman of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel, “for the discovery of quasicrystals.”
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6 October 2011
03:19 GMT |
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The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics goes out to three scientists, “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Saul Perlmutter will receive half of the award, whereas the other half will be split between Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess.
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5 October 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The Board of the Nobel Foundation has decided that Ralph M. Steinman will still be awarded half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He died the day the winners for this year were announced, and the Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously. Yet, the Board made its decision.
Steinman died of pancre... |
5 October 2011
02:42 GMT |
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A press release from the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced earlier today that the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to researchers Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman.
The 2011 Laureates “have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discove... |
3 October 2011
08:44 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, who developed graphene back in 2004, will present more data on the vast potential this material has today, July 5. Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov are leading the presentation.The two experts were jointly awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics... |
5 July 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Experts have been wondering for a very long time about how bacteria can produce species-specific wavelengths from their cells, without the presence of any discernible, specialized apparatus. A new study suggests that their chromosomes may play a role in underlying this ability. According to the conclusions of a new s... |
27 April 2011
03:51 GMT |
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The Nobel Foundation announced that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics will be shared between economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, and Christopher A. Pissarides.The three scientists have been awarded the prestigious Prize “for their analysis of markets with search frictions,” the official announ... |
12 October 2010
03:06 GMT |
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The Nobel Committee announced on October 8 that the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize goes to renowned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is currently incarcerated in his homeland. The award was bestowed on him for his “long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The […] committee ... |
9 October 2010
05:32 GMT |
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The Nobel Committee announced earlier today, October 7, that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa. The announcement came as a shock, as he was not among the “official” favorites. According to the public announcement, the award was given to Llosa “for his cart... |
7 October 2010
11:54 GMT |
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Officials with the Nobel Committee announced that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to jointly researchers who conducted work in creating a method for build complex organic molecules.The technique has numerous applications, ranging from pharmaceutical manufacturing to the electronics industry. The Committee m... |
7 October 2010
04:11 GMT |
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In a festivity held on October 5 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, the recipients of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced. Expert physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both from the University of Manchester, in England, were awarded the prestigious award for developing a low-... |
5 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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The recipient of the Nobel Prize in psychology or medicine for this year has finally been revealed, announce those in charge of distributing the prestigious scientific awards. The Prize will be given to British researcher Robert Edwards, who is responsible for pioneering in-vitro fertilization (IVF), an assisted repr... |
5 October 2010
09:19 GMT |
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Southern Arkansas University professor Abdel Bachri and his students are now in their second year when they visit the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkley Lab). During the first summer they spent at the facility, the Arkansas team constructed a portable cosmic ray detect... |
3 August 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Since the Nobel Prizes first started being awarded, more than a century ago, they have constantly grown in popularity and fame, until they reached their current status, as the most prestigious scientific awards in the world. But, while for most categories the winners are always selected after rigorous criteria, such ... |
4 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Physicists at the Zhejiang University, in China, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the US, have recently discovered a reverse shock wave of light forming in a special type of structure, known as a left-handed metamaterial. This is the first time the effect is directly observed in such a specific... |
3 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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After numerous meetings and discussions on the correct course of action, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award this year's Prize for Peace to US President Barack Obama, “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” In the century since... |
9 October 2009
08:55 GMT |
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided: this year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Herta Muller, a prolific novelist, poet and essayist that is mostly renowned for her depictions of the harsh conditions present in Romania during the rule of the Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. She was born in t... |
8 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which manages the most famous awards in the scientific community, the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be shared jointly by three experts, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” In their amazing work, the trio managed to use X-ra... |
7 October 2009
07:00 GMT |
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After the recent announcement that the Nobel Prize for Medicine has gone to telomerase research, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has now announced its decision to award the Nobel Prize in Physics to three researchers who have dedicated their lives to learning how to harness the power of light for increasing humankind... |
6 October 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Working in a line of research that is among the most commendable of all, researchers Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, from the United States, managed to further humankind's knowledge of aging, cancer and stem cells. In their studies of the human chromosomes, the vessels that carry our genetic... |
5 October 2009
07:03 GMT |
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Over the past few years, an eminent group of scientists has argued that the range of Nobel Prizes awarded every year should be increased, so as to reflect the new fields of science. The prizes, which are the highest a scientist can get, are currently only awarded for a few categories, and experts say that these do no... |
2 October 2009
03:24 GMT |
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An international collaboration of scientists from the United States and Spain has successfully developed a method of analyzing the vapors that the human skin emits in real time. The experts believe that these substances, mostly fatty acids, are the chemical triggers that attract mosquitoes to us, and also the stuff t... |
22 July 2009
09:24 GMT |
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Over the past 15 years, the world-famous star Betelgeuse, after which even cartoons were drawn, has been constantly reducing its size, and astronomers are puzzled at why this is happening. At this point, existing explanations of this phenomenon are unsatisfactory. Overall, experts reported at the 214th meeting of the... |
10 June 2009
05:04 GMT |
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During December 5-11, Nobel Prize laureates participate in extensive manifestations in Stockholm and Oslo, as the Nobel Week takes its regular course. This year, the winners in each category were offered the prestigious awards for remarkable contributions to their fields of research. As always, there were six Prizes ... |
11 December 2008
03:59 GMT |
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The US president-elect, Barack Obama, his vice-president, Joe Biden, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore met on Tuesday at Obama's presidential transition office in Chicago and discussed the matters related to climate change and global warming for the better part of two hours. At the end of the session, the pre... |
10 December 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Al Gore's commitment to saving the environment is no secret to anyone, as the Nobel-prized former vice-president (1993-2001) made that perfectly clear in his environmentalist documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. His group, the Alliance for Climate Protection (APC), has recently urged newly-elected president, Bara... |
13 November 2008
10:49 GMT |
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As it was somewhat expected, given this year's debates over various quantum particles topics, but mainly those related to CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded yesterday for groundbreaking discoveries in the field of quantum physics. Thus, it was handed to some researchers t... |
8 October 2008
06:21 GMT |
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The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to the two French researchers who discovered the HIV virus and to a German one for his work in the discovery of the cervical cancer-causing virus. Half of the prize, consisting of $650.000 (about 367.500 pounds or 468.500 Euros), went to the two French scientists,... |
6 October 2008
11:07 GMT |
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