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Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe

More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production

The Guardian - UK

AI could usher in a golden age of research – but only if these cutting-edge tools aren’t restricted to a few major private companies

2024 has been called the year of AI in science. It saw the Nobel prizes in both physics and chemistry awarded to groups of AI researchers.

The Conversation

Regulations needed to stop AI being used for ‘bad things’ – Geoffrey Hinton

Professor Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner, was once dubbed the ‘godfather’ of AI.

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Scientist says the one thing everyone hates about AI is ultimately what helped him win a Nobel Prize

In October, David Baker was the only American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2024.

Fortune

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – what happens when we die

The Nobel prize winner pushes at the veil between this world and the next in the immersive tale of a solitary fisherman

The Guardian - UK

Guess If These 20 Famous Individuals Have Ever Won A Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world, honoring groundbreaking achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts for peace. Over the years, it has been awarded to some of the greatest minds and most influential figures in history—but not everyone who is deserving has…

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Horror, myth and a feminist reworking of Thomas Mann: Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium defies classification

You’ve got to hand it to the Nobel Prize in Literature committee: its citations are masterpieces of brevity and precision. Entire lifetimes of tireless, painstaking effort, thousands of pages written over decades, are summed up in a statement of around 20 words.

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Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang talks about how writing connects her to readers

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has spoken passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was 8 years old

The Independent UK

Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, is shocked by recent events in South Korea

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country

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Why did Louis de Broglie, Nobel laureate in physics, abandon his own pilot wave theory?

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie’s doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel prize for “his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”. This discovery constitutes a central aspect of quantum mechanics, and it led to his famous “pilot wave” theory, which provides…

The Conversation

The Magic Mountain is a sweeping critique of totalitarian Europe. 100 years later, its warnings feel urgent

This month, Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain turns 100. One of the 20th century’s towering literary achievements, it is a sweeping critique of the dangerous totalitarian political forces that shaped – and very nearly destroyed – Europe in Mann’s lifetime.

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Graphene-chip implant in UK trial could transform brain tumour surgery

Cancer cell detector made of material that won its inventors Nobel prize is hailed as ‘clinical milestone’

The Guardian - UK

Trump grumbles about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize — and claims he deserved it more

Speaking to a crowd in Las Vegas, the former president also insisted there were 29,000 people inside the 19,522-capacity arena.

The Independent UK

Dozens of Nobel Prize Winners Break Silence to Endorse Kamala Harris, Sound Alarm on Trump: This Is a 'Wake-Up Call for People'

More than 80 Nobel Prize winners banded together to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in an open letter.

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Nobel prize winners endorse Harris and warn Trump would endanger future of science

Open letter by 82 laureates commends Harris and calls Trump a potential threat to progress on climate crisis

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Nobel Prize winners endorse Harris

Nobel Prize laureates including 23 economists say that Harris' economic plan is "vastly superior" to Trump's

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23 Nobel Prize winners push for Kamala Harris, calling her a 'better steward of our economy' than Trump

Economists say that tariffs and tax cuts make Trump’s plan weaker than Harris’s.

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AI is set to transform science – but will we understand the results?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics shared a common thread: AI.

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K-pop, K-movies, a Nobel prize … and now K-poetry: book of wise words adds to Korea’s cultural glory

After Han Kang’s Nobel award and South Korean cinema hits, Penguin publishes new English edition of maxims by Lee Seong-bok in wake of US success

The Conversation

The poetic violence of Han Kang’s Nobel Prize-winning literature – what you should read, watch and do this week

I didn’t seek out The Vegetarian when I first read it. I was on a book buying ban and in the lucky position to be living with a fellow hoarder. As I perused our combined stacks, a slim volume by an author I hadn’t heard of caught my eye, and…

International Business Times

S Korean Nobel Winner Han Kang Hopes Daily Life 'Won't Change Much'

Author Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature said Thursday that she hoped her daily life would not change too much after her historic honour.

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MicroRNA − a new Nobel laureate describes the scientific process of discovering these tiny molecules that turn genes on and off

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules that tell the cells in your body what kind of cell to be by turning on and off certain genes.

The Conversation

Victor Ambros on the team effort behind his Nobel-prize winning discovery of microRNA – podcast

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules that tell the cells in our body what kind of cell to be by turning on and off certain genes.

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This year’s Nobel prize exposes economics’ problem with colonialism

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been awarded the 2024 Nobel memorial prize in economics for their influential work on how institutions shape economic development. Some would say the decision to award these scholars the Nobel was long overdue.

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This year’s Nobel prize in economics awarded to team that examined what makes some countries rich and others poor

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to three US-based economists who examined the advantages of democracy and the rule of law, and why they are strong in some countries and not others.

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