The Latest Breaking News on Prizes

Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group

Nihon Hidankyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2024

Japanese nuclear bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who are also known as Hibakusha.

France 24 · Oct 11, 2024

Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize

Movement awarded for ‘demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again’.

Al Jazeera · Oct 11, 2024

Maths schools top the A-level rankings – and their students only study Stem subjects

The school that topped the Times newspaper’s A-Level rankings in 2024 only permits students to sit A-levels in three subjects: maths, further maths and physics. At King’s College London Mathematics School, 76.2% of students got an A* – and 99.5% of students achieved between A*-B.

The Conversation · Oct 9, 2024

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2024

Baker, Jumper, Hassabis win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on proteins

‘They cracked the code’; laureates hailed for revealing proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence.

Al Jazeera · Oct 9, 2024

Nobel Peace Prize To Be Awarded As Wars Rage

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday, a ray of light in a dark year for world peace, with the International Court of Justice, UNRWA and UN chief Antonio Guterres seen as favourites.

International Business Times · Oct 9, 2024

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton for machine learning discoveries

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

France 24 · Oct 8, 2024

Nobel Scientist Uncovered Tiny Genetic Switches With Big Potential

Harvard geneticist Gary Ruvkun vividly remembers the late-night phone call with his longtime friend and now 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate Victor Ambros, when they made their groundbreaking discovery of genetic switches that exist across the tree of life.

International Business Times · Oct 8, 2024

Nobel Prize 2024: Three US academics who researched global inequality take final prizes for year

This year’s winners of the prestigious awards are being announced from October 7 to 14

Evening Standard · Oct 7, 2024