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Seven Nobel laureates urge France to adopt tax on 'ultra-rich'

Seven Nobel Prize-winning economists have called on France to implement a minimum tax on wealthiest households, endorsing a measure inspired by the so-called "Zucman tax" that was rejected by the French Senate last month. The proposal comes as the French government looks for new sources of public revenue to balance…

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Alma Mater Europaea University on the Quiet Migration: American Brainpower Heads to Europe for Doctoral Education

Alma Mater Europaea, initiated by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an association of leading scholars, including 37 Nobel Prize winners, represents a new breed of university.

International Business Times

Carnegie honors 20 'Great Immigrants,' including composer Tania León, for 20th anniversary

Carnegie Corp. of New York's 2025 class of Great Immigrants, Great Americans include composer and conductor Tania León, last year's Nobel Prize winner in economics Simon Johnson, and Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar

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‘I should’ve gotten it four or five times’: Trumps whines for the Noble Peace Prize since he thinks peace is when he stops talking

Trump thinks they only give the award to liberals.

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Trump Froze Nobel Prize Winning Lebanese-American Scientist's Grant. Then China Offered Him Funding at Any School

Ardem Patapoutian declined 20 years of research funding at any Chinese university despite the Trump administration freezing his federal grant.

Latin Times

“No device is ever perfect, nor is photographic film” –George E Smith, co-inventor of the CCD sensor, has died

George E Smith, one of the inventors of the CCD sensor, the precursor to digital cameras, has died

Digital Camera World

US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research

A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley, federal officials said Thursday

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Nobel Prize author did not pick literature A-level as it did not feel ‘useful’

Abdulrazak Gurnah told the BBC’s Desert Island Discs that he concentrated on science courses.

Evening Standard

The Peruvian Nobel Prize winner

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about Mario Vargo Llosa. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, and Erwan Rome’s “Music from Erwan”. All that, and the new quiz and bonus questions too, so click the “Play” button…

Radio France Internationale

H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only…

The Conversation

Kazuo Ishiguro reveals why he prefers unfaithful film adaptations of his books

‘It’s a form of egomania,’ Nobel Prize winner said

The Independent UK

Global longevity competition for $101 million names semifinalists—here are their ideas for extending life by 10 years or more

Teams from all over the globe, composed of students, university researchers, and even a Nobel Prize winner, are competing for the coveted prize.

Fortune

45 Facts People Just Learned That Are So Awesome They Had To Share

These facts are guaranteed to pique your curiosity.

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Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelist

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'The world of literature is mourning': How Mario Vargas Llosa brought Spanish to splendour

The world of literature is mourning the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner. He was 89. The author of 'The Feast of the goats' leaves behind an indelible legacy. With sadness and admiration, fans and friends have described him as an 'eternal scribe.'

Radio France Internationale

Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa dies aged 89

Peruvian authorities on Monday declared a day of mourning with flags to fly at half mast on government buildings following the death of the Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

The Independent UK

Now Fox News is suggesting Trump could win Nobel Peace Prize over tariffs

‘Is there a Nobel Prize in trade? I don’t know, but maybe he might be up for that one,’ Fox News anchor John Roberts declared on Tuesday

Windows Central

Nobel laureate claims "AI will not be conscious" and shouldn't be considered intelligent — Until it develops its own ideas

Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose asserts that AI cannot achieve consciousness, according to Gödel's "Incompleteness Theorem."

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Evening Standard

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review: tightly-plotted excellence

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

The Conversation

Three novels by Nobel winner Han Kang that explain the fragile nature of South Korea

Last year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in the evening of December 3 2024, the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law…

The Guardian - UK

‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth

On the 20th anniversary of Never Let Me Go, the Nobel prize-winning novelist talks about the role of the author in a post-truth world – and why he’s ‘not a great writer of prose’

The Guardian - UK

‘The definition of a classic’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go at 20

A Booker-winning author, a Nobel prize-winning scientist and the directors of the film and stage adaptations on why Ishiguro’s dystopian tale still speaks to us today

Reason

Is Science Rigged for the Rich?

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.

The Conversation

Academic freedom and democracy under siege: how a Nobel peace prize could help defend them

Echoing the Stand Up for Science movement, which was organised in the US to defend academic freedom, a call to mobilise in France has been launched for Friday, March 7. Conferences, rallies and marches are being organised on the initiative of scientists united under the banner of Stand Up for…

The Conversation

In We Do Not Part, Han Kang faces unbearable historical traumas with sorrow and compassion

It’s daunting to review a novel written by someone who, in 2024, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description that applies equally to this newly translated work.

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