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Opinion Trump is Nobel Prize shopping. Here’s what it will take to win one. Regardless of the president-elect’s motives for seeking the award, we should hope he succeeds.
Read: A Nobel Prize for artificial intelligence. This past week, the 2024 Nobel class was introduced to the world, creating a new crop of Olympian figures.
STOCKHOLM − U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, ...
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is ...
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny pieces of genetic material that alter how genes work ...
STOCKHOLM — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. "This year's two ...
The Nobel Prize is considered the "Mount Everest of science." But it faces criticism for how the winners get chosen. How relevant is the prize in an era of global research?
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, a trio of economists working at U.S. universities, for research on ...
The Nobel Peace Prize has been suspended 19 times before, including during both world wars. Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, says withdrawal would be a mistake in 2024.
FILE - South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
With the Nobel Prizes being announced this week, here are five scientific breakthroughs that haven’t resulted in a life-changing call from Sweden — at least not yet.
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA, molecules that help control how genes are expressed. Their findings unlocked new areas of ...