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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.
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.
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 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 − 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, ...
The prize carries a cash award of $1 million from a bequest left by the award's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10 ...
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.
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.
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.
Last month, the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, for “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity ...
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 ...
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 ...