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Russia Denies Jailed Campaigner Orlov's Plea For Freedom

A Moscow court on Thursday upheld a prison sentence against Nobel Prize-winning rights advocate Oleg Orlov, after the campaigner compared Russia's justice system to that of Nazi Germany.

International Business Times

The Gothic horror of Alice Munro: A reckoning with the darkness behind a feminist icon

This week, in a devastating story about Alice Munro’s complicity in the sexual abuse of her youngest daughter, we discovered how Munro, a Nobel Prize-winning author acclaimed for her uniquely Gothic interpretation of women’s lives, actually lived her feminism.

The Conversation

The five scholars who won two Nobel prizes – and what sets them apart

There is often much debate about who is the greatest among sportsmen and women, movie stars, leaders or artists. But some scholars have truly made a staggering difference to the world.

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Labour 'lack ambition to reverse austerity', Nobel prize-winning economist warns

LABOUR’S plans for the UK “lack any ambition to reverse austerity”, a Nobel-prize winning economist has warned ...

The National (Scotland)

16 Nobel Prize-Winning Economists Warn Trump's Second Term Would Fuel Inflation

Experts from Wall Street and economic analysts predict Trump's measures could lead to a resurgence of inflation, which has only recently shown signs of cooling.

International Business Times

Nobel prize economists warn a Trump win will lead to even higher inflation

The former president’s potential economic policies could have the reverse effect many Americans hope for in a presidency

The Independent UK

Expert economists back Labour’s plan to end economic stagnation in UK

Nobel prize winners and former Bank of England officials believe Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer can bring about ‘desperately needed’ change

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AI plus gene editing promises to shift biotech into high gear

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and edit any sequence of DNA, but we cannot compose it.” That isn’t true anymore.

The Conversation

Ukraine Offers Path For Victims Of Wartime Sexual Violence: Nobel Winner

A Ukrainian pilot project to compensate women raped by invading Russian soldiers could offer a roadmap for dealing with wartime sexual violence, says a Nobel Prize winner and expert on conflict atrocities.

International Business Times

Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian Author, Dead At 92

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known as "Canada's Chekhov" for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said Tuesday.

International Business Times

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92

The Canadian writer was known for her masterfully crafted short stories. Throughout her long career, she earned a number of prestigious awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

WEKU

Arno Penzias obituary

US astrophysicist whose discovery of the cosmic microwave radiation resulting from the big bang brought him the Nobel prize

The Guardian - UK

Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94

Celebrated theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, best known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94 after a short illness.

LiveScience

Nobel-winning 'God particle' physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94

British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle – the so-called Higgs boson – jointly earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh announced on Tuesday.

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The failure of Ivory Coast's ban on skin-lightening products

How the ban on skin-lightening products in Ivory Coast has not stopped thousands of women from buying these creams. This as health officials warn of risks such as diabetes and hypertension. Also we head to the Anbar region in Iraq which is undergoing massive reconstruction after the collapse of the…

The Times of India

HIV can be completely eliminated from cells using gene editing

In what can be said as a breakthrough in medical research, HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus has been eliminated from cells in a lab test. The scientists, led by Dr Elena Herrera-Carrillo and part of her team (Yuanling Bao, Zhenghao Yu and Pascal Kroon) at Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands have…

The Guardian - UK

China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of ‘three new evils’ amid rise in nationalist fervour

Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online

The Guardian - UK

How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto review – skilful skewering

A young scientist follows her discredited mentor to a university for cancelled academics in this dark, complex debut about the culture wars

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Nobel laureate joins GITAM students on National Science Day

Gregg Semenza, 2019 Nobel Prize winner, explains how cells adapt to changing oxygen levels at GITAM University.

The Hindu

Open Day at Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru on February 28

Every year, the National Science Day is celebrated across India on February 28 to commemorate the discovery of the Raman Effect for which Sir C.V. Raman received the Nobel prize.

The Hindu

Understanding body’s perception of pain key to evolving new drugs: David Julius

TNQ lecture series: David Julius, biochemist, molecular physiologist and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology, on how we sense pain

The Hindu

Eminent scientist G.N. Ramachandran remembered

Former Director General of CSIR, Shekhar C. Mande, praises biophysicist G.N. Ramachandran's contributions and suggests he deserved the Nobel Prize.

The Conversation

4 must-read books from east Africa in 2023: from Tanzanian masters to Ugandan queens

East African literature continues to grow and reshape itself in exciting new ways – and 2023 was no exception. The world really did take notice of the region when Tanzanian-British author Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. Interest in Gurnah’s work continued last year when he…

The Conversation

Knausgaard's ambitious new novel imagines Europe's last decades – ending with an ominous star and the return of the dead

The Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is a 21st-century literary phenomenon. Talked up as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been compared to some of the greatest writers of all time: Fyodor Dostovesky, Marcel Proust, Roberto Bolaño. His work challenges conventional assumptions about content and form,…

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Astronaut shows off vintage Nobel Prize in space — and talks 'quantum dots' ISS experiment (video)

A quantum experiment, based on a Nobel Prize work, is mounted outside the International Space Station. The new Nobel laureate called the ISS to talk about it all.

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