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“One of our signal failures, decades ago, was to accept the false choice pitting climate change mitigation against economic growth.”

The Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2023 goes to three scientists “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” The Conversation Weekly podcast caught up with one of this trio, physical chemist Louis Brus, who did foundational work figuring out that the properties of these nanoparticles depend on their size.…

Imagine a particle so small that it’s the same relative size to a football as that ball is to the planet Earth. That’s the size of a quantum dot – a type of nanocrystal that changes colour depending on its size, and was once thought impossible to actually produce.

When asked what her response was to being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2020, Louise Glück replied that she was “completely flabbergasted.” She said she had thought it “extremely unlikely that I would ever have this particular event to deal with in my life.”

Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work

M.S. Swaminathan worked tirelessly, even on weekends, to help others. His daughter recalled how people would come to their home with personal problems. His foundation will continue its pro-nature, pro-poor, and pro-women approach, incorporating advances in tech. P.C. Kesavan, who had known him for 60 yrs, said he followed Gandhi's…

Claudia Goldin also had some advice for young couples when it comes to remaining equal if they decide to have children.

Economic history has long been chronicled through a male lens, emphasizing the contributions of men and their viewpoints. For proof, just look to the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. It’s been awarded to 90 men since 1969 – and just three women.

There’s something to the notion that Nobel winners create less thereafter, says scientist Paul Nurse

In an astonishing act of timing, Harvard University’s Professor Claudia Goldin published a paper on Monday titled Why Women Won. It mapped milestone moments in women’s rights in the United States from 1905 to 2023.

Women stirred up a “quiet revolution” in the labour market, according to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2023 winner of the Nobel prize in economics for her analysis of gender differences in the labour market, particularly the persistent problem of the…