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Alexis Wright has revitalised Australian literature, but a new book by a ‘superfan’ overlooks an important aspect of her work

Is there an author more fêted and adored in Australia right now than Alexis Wright? In the two years since the publication of her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (2023), she has been garlanded with awards and ascended to new heights of international recognition, including entering the betting table last year as…

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Science behind perfect pasta sauce, pizza-eating lizards, drunk bats win 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

Physics applied to study exotic materials in industries helps cook perfect pasta sauce

The Independent UK

Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly bights are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels

The Independent UK

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Teflon diet, garlic milk and zebra cows triumph at 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

Researchers into idea to blend powdered PTFE into food as a zero-calorie filler to curb hunger win chemistry prize

The Guardian - UK

RFK Jr says Trump deserves Nobel Prize for COVID vaccine, also says vaccine killed more people than COVID

Makes sense if he's a big fan of mass death!

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Filipino priest who fought Duterte's brutal drug crackdown among Magsaysay Award winners

A Filipino priest who protested against Rodrigo Duterte’s drug crackdown is among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize

The Independent UK

Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92

MIT professor, Nobel prize winner, and renowned astrophysicist Rainer Weiss has passed away at the age of 92.

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Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize

US president told Norway’s finance minister he wants the Nobel peace prize, according to the Norwegian press

The Guardian - US

Nobel-winning Scottish chemist predicts Alzheimer’s drugs in 5 years

A Nobel Prize-winning Scots chemist has said he believes drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease could be available within five years

The National (Scotland)

New euro banknotes spark Franco-Polish dispute over Marie Curie's name

The Polish Nobel Prize-winning scientist was born in Warsaw with the surname Skłodowska, before later marrying the Frenchman Pierre Curie.

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Kazuo Ishiguro said he won the Nobel Prize for making people cry – 20 years later, Never Let Me Go should make us angry

Our cultural touchstone series looks at works that have had a lasting influence.

The Conversation

Swiss exoplanet pioneer reflects on Earth’s place in the cosmos

In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment marked the beginning of a new era in astronomy and planetary science, earning the Swiss pair the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. In a recent visit to the Sorbonne,…

Radio France Internationale

‘Every world leader knows exactly how to play Trump’: Netanyahu backs Trump’s Nobel Prize dreams, internet says give him one for ‘fiction’

Trump will take a Nobel Prize endorsement from anyone.

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Seven Nobel laureates urge France to adopt tax on 'ultra-rich'

Seven Nobel Prize-winning economists have called on France to implement a minimum tax on wealthiest households, endorsing a measure inspired by the so-called "Zucman tax" that was rejected by the French Senate last month. The proposal comes as the French government looks for new sources of public revenue to balance…

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Alma Mater Europaea University on the Quiet Migration: American Brainpower Heads to Europe for Doctoral Education

Alma Mater Europaea, initiated by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an association of leading scholars, including 37 Nobel Prize winners, represents a new breed of university.

The Independent UK

Carnegie honors 20 'Great Immigrants,' including composer Tania León, for 20th anniversary

Carnegie Corp. of New York's 2025 class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans include composer and conductor Tania León, last year's Nobel Prize winner in economics Simon Johnson, and Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar

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‘I should’ve gotten it four or five times’: Trumps whines for the Noble Peace Prize since he thinks peace is when he stops talking

Trump thinks they only give the award to liberals.

Latin Times

Trump Froze Nobel Prize Winning Lebanese-American Scientist's Grant. Then China Offered Him Funding at Any School

Ardem Patapoutian declined 20 years of research funding at any Chinese university despite the Trump administration freezing his federal grant.

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“No device is ever perfect, nor is photographic film” –George E Smith, co-inventor of the CCD sensor, has died

George E Smith, one of the inventors of the CCD sensor, the precursor to digital cameras, has died

The Independent UK

US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research

A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday

Evening Standard

Nobel Prize author did not pick literature A-level as it did not feel ‘useful’

Abdulrazak Gurnah told the BBC’s Desert Island Discs that he concentrated on science courses.

Radio France Internationale

The Peruvian Nobel Prize winner

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mario Vargo Llosa. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button…

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H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only…

The Independent UK

Kazuo Ishiguro reveals why he prefers unfaithful film adaptations of his books

‘It’s a form of egomania,’ Nobel Prize winner said

Fortune

Global longevity competition for $101 million names semifinalists—here are their ideas for extending life by 10 years or more

Teams from all over the globe, composed of students, university researchers, and even a Nobel Prize winner, are competing for the coveted prize.

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