The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the second international organisation to win in two years following the European Union. Alone…
Master of the short story: Alice Munro.
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The announcement of Alice Munro as 2013’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature marks the high point in the 82-year old writer’s long career, but also a significant recognition for the form with which…
This is a DNA-binding protein, so said the computer.
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In a rare double, another Nobel Prize has gone to scientists who build models. The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for their work that enables…
The two Nobel Prize laureates.
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This time the pundits were right. The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was indeed awarded to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Peter Higgs and François Englert shared the prize for suggesting the mechanism…
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work that explains why subatomic particles have mass. They predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, a fundamental…
Nobel Prize in medicine 2013: Thomas Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman.
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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Thomas Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman for their discoveries of how the transport mechanism in cells works. Cells are the basic units of life…
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When physicist Richard Feynman was asked which now-deceased person from history he would most like to speak with, and what he would say, he said: “My father. I would tell him that I won the Nobel Prize…
Graeme Carrick (left) was the first person in the world to receive a commercial cochlear implant invented by Graeme Clark (right).
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The creator of the cochlear implant - a revolutionary device that enables people born or made deaf through disease or trauma to hear and recognise speech - has won a top international award in clinical…
Success is sweet – and maybe more so than we knew.
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Want to win a Nobel prize? You might increase your chances by eating more chocolate, according to a letter in Nature last Thursday. The research, which outlines a survey of chocolate consumption of 23…
Many proteins make up the G protein-coupled receptor family, including the κ-opioid receptor (above).
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Two US scientists have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the receptors that transmit signals such as light, taste or smell to cells. Robert Lefkowitz (of Duke University…
Can you play a quantum game of tennis with just one court and one ball?
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You may have heard that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche (from College de France) and David J. Wineland (from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon have received the 2012 Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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The 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology has been awarded to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”. A pluripotent cell…
Thomas Perlmann of the Karolinska Institute announces John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka as winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Scientist Shinya Yamanaka was born in 1962 – the same year that fellow scientist John Gurdon made a discovery that eventually led to the cloning of mammals. Fifty years later, the two men have been awarded…
For Brian Schmidt, and the rest of us, the universe is expanding.
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Professor Brian Schmidt was part of the team that won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae”. The consequences…
Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to have won a Nobel prize for economics, was most famous for challenging the idea of the “tragedy of the commons”: that in the absence of government intervention, people will overuse shared resources.
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The grand philosopher of the Commons, Elinor Ostrom, passed away on the 12th June 2012. She was a brilliant, creative polymath; a theoretician of fine precision and great intellectual power; a deviser…
ASKAP sun up antennas.
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Newly-minted Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt reflects on the state of Australian science. The feted astronomer is optimistic about the future and the contribution science can make to improving lives…
Nobel Prize in Economics winners Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent: in the neoclassic mold.
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The Sveriges Riksbank’s Prize in Economic Sciences - or the Nobel prize in economics - awarded last week to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims- implicitly claims that economics is a science. But how accurate…
Ezio Rizzardo (left) and David Solomon won the prize for the invention of smart polymers.
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Two Australian chemists have won the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for the invention of “smart plastic” technology, a technique that revolutionised the way paints, contact lenses, solar cells…
Joint Nobel Prize in Economics winners Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent have contributed a body of work over decades.
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Princeton University professor Christopher Sims and New York University economist Thomas Sargent have been jointly named the 2011 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics (or, for the purists, the Sveriges…
Nobel Laureates: Princeton University professor Christopher Sims (left) and Thomas Sargent, a New York University economist and visiting professor at Princeton.
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Two US economists have been named the 2011 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics for their research on how economies are affected by macroeconomic variables such as GDP, inflation, employment and investments…