VS Naipaul after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
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Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
Alfred Nobel, whose will set up the prize system in 1895.
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The long and turbulent history of the Nobel Prize for Literature continues.
Life over the microscope.
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It’s 65 years since the structure of DNA was first published, but the woman who made that possible remains unknown to many people.
Sara Danius announcing her resignation as permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, April 12.
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Allegations of sexual harassment have shaken the organisation that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Engineering can greatly bolster any country’s development and growth.
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Africa has recorded a tremendous growth in its output of academic engineering research over the past 20 years. Greater collaboration can increase this growth even more.
Science itself needs to be put under the microscope and carefully scrutinised to deal with its flaws.
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We are observing two new phenomena. On one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.
Marie Curie in her laboratory.
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Marie Skłodowska Curie was born 150 years ago and is still the only female scientist many people can name.
There may be a very good reason for not wanting to get up in the morning when it’s still dark.
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Evidence for a link between breast cancer and artificial light appears to be growing. Do studies showing higher risk of breast cancer the farther west a woman lives in a time zone add to the science?
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Governments gently cajoling people towards better life choices is only one side of the nudge theory.
Ishiguro in 2017.
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Ishiguro employs some clever techniques to get readers to engage with his characters.
As a founder of behavioral economics, Thaler has helped change the way economists look at the world.
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Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking work incorporating how humans actually behave into economic thinking.
Professor Richard Thaler.
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His work on behavioural economics helps us better understand why people make bad financial decisions.
The Swedish monarch presenting a Nobel Prize.
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Taking a look at the likely contenders for the Memorial Prize in Economics gives us an idea of where economics is and where it is headed.
The electron microscope’s resolution has radically improved in the last few years, from mostly showing shapeless blobs (left) in 2013 to now being able to visualise proteins at atomic resolution (right) in the present.
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The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to scientists who developed a way to study biological molecules under an electron microscope.
Cryo-electron microscopy resolution continues to improve.
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The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three scientists who revolutionized biochemistry by inventing a technology that can image the molecules of life without destroying them.
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
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Today’s scientific research is characterized by interdisciplinary, international collaboration. Awards like the Nobel Prizes haven’t caught up.
An illustration of the collision of two black holes, an event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
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The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to scientists who helped pioneer the discovery of gravitational waves. Australia is playing an important role in gravitational-wave astronomy.
Michael Rosbash, Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael W. Young have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
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Using the right metaphor in science is important.
The “Door of Europe” monument, which commemorates migrants who died on their journey, is seen on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
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The island of Lampedusa in Italy has become the symbol of how a community can welcome migrants — for better or for worse.