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The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week. What to know about the prestigious awards

The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week

The Independent UK

Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, set in 1984, is translated for the Trump era in One Battle After Another

Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered an Oscar contender.

The Conversation

Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and was herself awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935 together with her husband, Frederic Joliot.

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Trump Jeopardising US Role As Scientific Leader: Nobel Officials

Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. Since taking office in January, the US president has cut billions of dollars in funding, attacked universities' academic freedoms and overseen…

International Business Times

Drunk bats and pasta clumps: The winners of 2025’s Ig Nobel Prizes

Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights unusual scientific research that provides both laughter and insight. Here are this year’s winners.

Euronews

Alexis Wright has revitalised Australian literature, but a new book by a ‘superfan’ overlooks an important aspect of her work

Is there an author more fêted and adored in Australia right now than Alexis Wright? In the two years since the publication of her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (2023), she has been garlanded with awards and ascended to new heights of international recognition, including entering the betting table last year as…

The Conversation

Science behind perfect pasta sauce, pizza-eating lizards, drunk bats win 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

Physics applied to study exotic materials in industries helps cook perfect pasta sauce

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Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly bights are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels

The Independent UK

Teflon diet, garlic milk and zebra cows triumph at 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

Researchers into idea to blend powdered PTFE into food as a zero-calorie filler to curb hunger win chemistry prize

The Guardian - UK

RFK Jr says Trump deserves Nobel Prize for COVID vaccine, also says vaccine killed more people than COVID

Makes sense if he's a big fan of mass death!

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Filipino priest who fought Duterte's brutal drug crackdown among Magsaysay Award winners

A Filipino priest who protested against Rodrigo Duterte’s drug crackdown is among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize

The Independent UK

Nobel prize winner and gravitational wave pioneer Rainer Weiss dies at 92

MIT professor, Nobel prize winner, and renowned astrophysicist Rainer Weiss has passed away at the age of 92.

Space

Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize

US president told Norway’s finance minister he wants the Nobel peace prize, according to the Norwegian press

The Guardian - US

Nobel-winning Scottish chemist predicts Alzheimer’s drugs in 5 years

A Nobel Prize-winning Scots chemist has said he believes drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease could be available within five years

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New euro banknotes spark Franco-Polish dispute over Marie Curie's name

The Polish Nobel Prize-winning scientist was born in Warsaw with the surname Skłodowska, before later marrying the Frenchman Pierre Curie.

The Conversation

Kazuo Ishiguro said he won the Nobel Prize for making people cry – 20 years later, Never Let Me Go should make us angry

Our cultural touchstone series looks at works that have had a lasting influence.

Radio France Internationale

Swiss exoplanet pioneer reflects on Earth’s place in the cosmos

In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz made a groundbreaking discovery: the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. This moment marked the beginning of a new era in astronomy and planetary science, earning the Swiss pair the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. In a recent visit to the Sorbonne,…

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‘Every world leader knows exactly how to play Trump’: Netanyahu backs Trump’s Nobel Prize dreams, internet says give him one for ‘fiction’

Trump will take a Nobel Prize endorsement from anyone.

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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…

International Business Times

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.

The Independent UK

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.

Latin Times

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.

Digital Camera World

“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

The Independent UK

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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