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Nobel Prize Season Arrives amid War, Nuclear Fears, Hunger

This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. The secretive Nobel committees never hint who will win the prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. It's anyone's guess…

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What's a laureate? A classicist explains the word's roots in Ancient Greek victors winning crowns of laurel leaves

When the Nobel Prizes are handed out each year, honorees each receive a medal and monetary prize. Even in the absence of these material goods, the honor of being a Nobel laureate persists as part of someone’s name or title, like a heroic epithet to recognize a life’s achievement.

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Nobel Prize season arrives amid war, nuclear fears, hunger

This year’s Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster

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Louis Pasteur's scientific discoveries in the 19th century revolutionized medicine and continue to save the lives of millions today

Some of the greatest scientific discoveries haven’t resulted in Nobel Prizes.

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Nobel Prizes, election outcomes and sports championships – prediction markets try to foresee the future

Who will win Nobel Prizes in 2022? Wikipedia posits a handful of contenders for Physiology or Medicine, about 20 different possible winners for the Peace Prize and several dozen potential winners of the Literature Prize. But since the Swedish Academy never announces nominees in advance, there are few insights indicating…

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Canadian scientists made life-saving contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic

This year, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be awarded on Oct. 3. Canada will be in the spotlight again, thanks to Canadian scientists’ involvement with mRNA vaccine development.

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Stumped review – at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

Shomit Dutta’s play imagines the two cricket-obsessed Nobel prize winners as waiting batsmen in an enjoyable spin on Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter

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Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel Prize

WASHINGTON -- A Japanese professor won an award for research into how people use their fingers to turn knobs at this year's Ig Nobel Prize, which recognizes humorous and profound achievements in scientific research.

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Japanese professor wins Ig Nobel prize for study on knob turning

Annual satirical awards laud little-known research topics such as why ducklings swim in a line formation

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How to think like Albert Einstein

Exertion and isolation are key elements in the making of revolutionary ideas. Can our classrooms prepare students accordingly?

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Javier Marías: modern literature’s great philosopher of everyday absurdity

The author of 15 novels, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize, and the most recent King of Redonda, the Spanish writer was an acute observer of the games we all play

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The King's Horseman, Nigeria's most famous play, is now a Netflix movie: what makes it a classic

Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist and academic Wole Soyinka. Directed by the late Biyi Bandele, the film – in the Yoruba language…

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Cambodian, Japanese among winners of Magsaysay Awards

A psychiatrist who helped fellow Cambodians recover from trauma resulting from the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule and a Japanese ophthalmologist who led an effort to treat thousands of Vietnamese villagers are among those selected for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize

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Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins Magsaysay

A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.

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First fiction work by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück to be published in UK

The 64-page ‘prose narrative’ Marigold and Rose: A Fiction – about twins in the first year of life – will be published in October

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on Nobel prize

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Video Shows Huge Machine Tunneling For Britain’s High-Speed Rail Project

Dorothy is named after Dorothy Hodgkin, who in 1964 became the first British woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Briefcase with letter from Yorkshire Ripper lost on tram as £1million reward offered

Dickie Bingham, 72, chairman of British Plc, one of Scotland's oldest companies, left a briefcase containing Nobel Prize-tipped research and a Yorkshire Ripper letter on a tram

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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on the “God particle”

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Ukrainian mathematician becomes second woman to win Fields Medal

The Fields Medal, often described as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, is awarded every four years to mathematicians under age of 40

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Ukrainian mathematician awarded prestigious Fields Medal

Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska has been named one of four recipients of the prestigious Fields Medal, which is often described a the Nobel Prize in mathematics

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Where cowboys rule

The Colombian writer and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. At his award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, a delegation of Colombian musicians performed for the event. Harp player Carlos "Cuco" Rojas, the founder of the Cimarron band, and lead singer Ana Veydo joined…

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Interview: Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Nobel laureate

France has an increasing appetite for the work of Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose novels about the brutal impacts of colonialism in Africa, life in exile and endemic racism are a collision of old and new worlds. The Tanzanian-born writer and academic drew on his own experiences as a boy…

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Russian journalist sells Nobel Prize for over 100m dollars to help Ukraine

Dmitry Muratov left Russia for Western Europe on Thursday to begin his trip to New York City, where the auction took place

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Russian journalist sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian children

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