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Knowledge nugget of the day: Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2024
October 20, 2024 1:34 pm
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2024 was announced on Monday. Who are the winners? How significant is their findings in understanding the relationship between institutions and the nation's prosperity? Here's all you need to know.
Knowledge Nugget of the day: Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics 2024
October 15, 2024 11:34 am
Recently, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics were announced for the year 2024. Who are the winners? What are their discoveries? How significant is their discovery? Here's all that you must know.
Knowledge Nugget of the day: Nobel Prize in Medicine 2024
October 15, 2024 11:30 am
Who won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine and why is the discovery exceptional? Here's all you must know in today's knowledge nugget.
Daniel Kahneman’s work showed we all are born with cognitive quirks that make us inherently flawed
April 02, 2024 9:34 am
His research revealed our tendency to think that other people have biases but not us. It demonstrated that we are typically overconfident in our opinions, and that we exaggerate how knowable the world is
Nobel winner recalls flunking his first college chemistry exam
October 05, 2023 9:23 pm
Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots, widely used today to create colours in flat screens, LED lamps and devices that help surgeons see blood vessels in tumours.
And the 2021 Nobel Prizes go to men... so far
October 08, 2021 1:07 pm
Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Greta Thunberg are at least two women seen to be in contention when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Norway on Friday
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel Literature Prize 2021; know about his works
October 07, 2021 7:12 pm
"His novels recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to many in other parts of the world," the Academy said
What we know about the universe — the science behind Physics Nobel Prize
October 09, 2019 10:08 am
Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles, 84, won one-half of the Prize for his theoretical work helping us understand how the universe evolved after the Big Bang.
Nobel Prize for Physics 2018: Three scientists win for 'groundbreaking inventions in field of laser physics'
October 02, 2018 3:49 pm
Nobel Physics Prize 2018: “For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” the Academy awards one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.
Nobel prize winner hospitalized, wife found deceased in Illinois
March 15, 2018 9:57 am
The couple was reported missing to the Indiana State Police at about 8 p.m. central time on Monday. They were last seen at their home in West Lafayette, near the Purdue University campus where Ei-Ichi is a professor of chemistry.
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Meet Swedish scientist Svante Paabo, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine
October 04, 2022 2:41 pm
Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA and helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune system.
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