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Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian Author, Dead At 92

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known as "Canada's Chekhov" for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said Tuesday.

International Business Times

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92

The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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Arno Penzias obituary

US astrophysicist whose discovery of the cosmic microwave radiation resulting from the big bang brought him the Nobel prize

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Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94

Celebrated theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, best known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94 after a short illness.

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Nobel-winning 'God particle' physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94

British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle – the so-called Higgs boson – jointly earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh announced on Tuesday.

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The failure of Ivory Coast's ban on skin-lightening products

How the ban on skin-lightening products in Ivory Coast has not stopped thousands of women from buying these creams. This as health officials warn of risks such as diabetes and hypertension. Also we head to the Anbar region in Iraq which is undergoing massive reconstruction after the collapse of the…

France 24

HIV can be completely eliminated from cells using gene editing

In what can be said as a breakthrough in medical research, HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus has been eliminated from cells in a lab test. The scientists, led by Dr Elena Herrera-Carrillo and part of her team (Yuanling Bao, Zhenghao Yu and Pascal Kroon) at Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands have…

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China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of ‘three new evils’ amid rise in nationalist fervour

Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online

The Guardian - UK

How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto review – skilful skewering

A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture wars

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Nobel laureate joins GITAM students on National Science Day

Gregg Semenza, 2019 Nobel Prize winner, explains how cells adapt to changing oxygen levels at GITAM University.

The Hindu

Open Day at Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru on February 28

Every year, the National Science Day is celebrated across India on February 28 to commemorate the discovery of the Raman Effect for which Sir C.V. Raman received the Nobel prize.

The Hindu

Understanding body’s perception of pain key to evolving new drugs: David Julius

TNQ lecture series: David Julius, biochemist, molecular physiologist and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology, on how we sense pain

The Hindu

Eminent scientist G.N. Ramachandran remembered

Former Director General of CSIR, Shekhar C. Mande, praises biophysicist G.N. Ramachandran's contributions and suggests he deserved the Nobel Prize.

The Hindu

4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens

East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways – and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah’s work continued last year when he…

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Knausgaard's ambitious new novel imagines Europe's last decades – ending with an ominous star and the return of the dead

The Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is a 21st-century literary phenomenon. Talked up as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been compared to some of the greatest writers of all time: Fyodor Dostovesky, Marcel Proust, Roberto Bolaño. His work challenges conventional assumptions about content and form,…

Space

Astronaut shows off vintage Nobel Prize in space — and talks 'quantum dots' ISS experiment (video)

A quantum experiment, based on a Nobel Prize work, is mounted outside the International Space Station. The new Nobel laureate called the ISS to talk about it all.

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Watch ISS astronaut speak with Nobel Prize winners today

International Space Station commander Andreas Mogensen will speak with two Nobel laureates on Dec. 11. You can watch the event live, for free.

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Jon Fosse says he would have stopped writing 40 years ago if he had listened to critics

Septology author uses Nobel laureate speech to say writing ‘can save lives’ as he recalls his early poor reviews

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Nobel Prize-winning economist weighs in on how ChatGPT-like tools are transforming the future of work—1 year since its launch

Chris Pissarides cautions that it will require other factors including greater tech investment and supportive policies before society reaps AI's benefits in earnest.

The Independent UK

UK becomes 1st country to approve gene therapy treatment for sickle cell, thalassemia

Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the…

The Independent UK

Blood disorder breakthrough as world-first gene therapy given green light

The treatment is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its inventors were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020

Evening Standard

Casgevy: World-first gene therapy for sickle cell disease approved in UK

Regulator's approval comes three years after scientists won Nobel Prize for inventing the treatment

The Independent UK

World-first gene therapy for inherited blood disorders approved in UK

The treatment is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its inventors were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020.

The Guardian - UK

Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’

In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize

The Guardian - UK

Mario Vargas Llosa says latest novel will be his last

Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’

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