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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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