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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton for machine learning discoveries

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

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Nobel Scientist Uncovered Tiny Genetic Switches With Big Potential

Harvard geneticist Gary Ruvkun vividly remembers the late-night phone call with his longtime friend and now 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate Victor Ambros, when they made their groundbreaking discovery of genetic switches that exist across the tree of life.

International Business Times

Nobel Prize 2024: Three US academics who researched global inequality take final prizes for year

This year’s winners of the prestigious awards are being announced from October 7 to 14

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US duo Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun win Nobel medicine for microRNA discovery

Scientists win prize for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.

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Nobel Prizes 2024: How do nominations work?

Here’s a look at all those who can nominate people for the Nobels. The list is long – very long.

Al Jazeera

Cancer, Cardiovascular Drugs Tipped For Nobel As Prize Week Opens

Cancer research or drugs treating cardiovascular illnesses could win a Nobel Prize on Monday when a week of laureate announcements kicks off, bringing a ray of optimism to a world beset by crises.

International Business Times

The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence

Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes

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Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data

Five regions of the planet were claimed to hold the key to living past 100. Research by Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing shows the truth isn’t that simple, writes Kevin E G Perry

The Independent UK

Palestinian, Filipino and Mozambican activists and a London research agency given human rights award

The Right Livelihood Award has been given to activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique as well as to a U_K_ research agency for making "a profound impact on their communities.”

The Independent UK

Upcoming Nobel prizes offer glimmer of hope as global crises mount

Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid a spiralling Middle East conflict, war in Ukraine, famine in Sudan and a collapsing climate.

Radio France Internationale

Mexico has a trailblazing new president. But does she have any new ideas to tackle spiralling crime?

On October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum will take an oath, receive a sash and become the first female president of Mexico.

The Conversation

Can you solve it? The box problem that baffled the boffins

This puzzle is a gift

The Guardian - UK

What’s the secret of the supercentenarians? They don’t really exist

Many people say they’re living to 100-plus years. But research lauded with an Ig Nobel prize shows some claims are spurious

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Robert Stern obituary

Other lives: Professor at Sheffield University who was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation

International Business Times

S.Africa's HIV Research Power Couple Says Fight Goes On

Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power couple Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are credited with saving thousands of lives.

Marie Claire

Emma Mackey has found her power

“I don't think empowerment is something that can be cultivated individually; it's something that needs to be fed and nourished by other people.”

International Business Times

Backside Breathing And Pigeon Bombers Studies Win Ig Nobel Prizes

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels, the quirky alternative to the Nobel prizes.

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The Independent UK

Pigeon-guided missiles, rats and pigs breathing through their anuses and drunk worms: Ig Nobels celebrate science’s wackiest discoveries

The Ig Nobels were founded by a science humor magazine in 1991 to honor the imaginative and unusual in science

The Guardian - UK

Ig Nobel prize goes to team who found mammals can breathe through anuses

Scientific research on pigeon missiles and dead trout also win at awards for amusing studies with serious implications

The Independent UK

Pigeon-guided bombs, dead trout and hair whorls triumph at spoof Nobel prizes

Research on lactating cows and anus-breathing mammals also picked up awards.

The Conversation

The new politics of blame: why Donald Trump craves your rage – and three ways to resist the game

The Nobel prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom once wrote about “the danger of self-evident truths” within academic research, warning that they were often wrong, or at the very least misleading.

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Ballon d'Or: What is the Gerd Muller Trophy?

The Gerd Muller Trophy will be handed out at the Ballon d'Or ceremony

The Guardian - UK

UK’s science minister declares end to Tory ‘war on universities’

Peter Kyle, who applied to university three times, said Tory government’s ‘war’ on higher education was over

The Guardian - UK

Where’s British pride in our contribution to science and the Enlightenment?

Letters: Andrew King and David Redshaw respond to the results of a survey that tracked pride in Britain’s history

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