Will AI one day win a Nobel Prize?
Artificial intelligence is already disrupting industries from banking and finance to film and journalism, and scientists are investigating how AI might revolutionize their field—or even win a Nobel Prize......»»
The best classes in The Finals
Before you get your team together and start competing for the top prize in The Finals, you need to know your role. Let's figure out which class is best for you......»»
Researchers: The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years—and probably far longer
In February 2000, Paul Crutzen rose to speak at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Mexico. And when he spoke, people took notice. He was then one of the world's most cited scientists, a Nobel laureate working on huge-scale problems—.....»»
Which class should you pick in The Finals?
Before you get your team together and start competing for the top prize in The Finals, you need to know your role. Let's figure out which class is best for you......»»
Would matrix mechanics win recognition today?
Albert Einstein, best known for his work in relativity, won the Nobel Prize for his formula for the photoelectric effect, which often surprises modern physicists. He's not the only physicist whose Nobel award misaligns with the winner's modern claim-.....»»
Equality in the labor market needs more than public childcare, economists say
Having children poses serious financial challenges. One researcher to demonstrate this is U.S. economist Claudia Goldin, who was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her research on gender differences in the labor market......»»
Why Women Earn Less Than Men: Economic Historian Wins Nobel for Work on Gender Pay Gap
Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace.....»»
Oh my gourd: Hippo-sized pumpkin is world"s biggest
A monster pumpkin weighing the same as a hippopotamus has claimed the world record for the mightiest gourd—and bagged its grower a $30,000 prize......»»
Claudia Goldin: Nobel-winning sleuth of the gender pay gap
Claudia Goldin has long thought of herself as a kind of detective within economics, employing tools across academic disciplines in a quest to examine how women fit into the workforce......»»
Claudia Goldin wins Nobel for work on women in the labor market
The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for her research that has helped understand the role of women in the labor market......»»
Economics prize closes out 2023 Nobel season
The economics prize closes the prestigious Nobel awards season on Monday, with specialists on credit, the job market or inequalities expected to be among the contenders......»»
How These Nobel-Winning Physicists Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time
The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons......»»
Saturday Citations: Hippo maxillofacial issues; implicit biases in the game of kings; AI masters Street Fighter
They announced the Nobel prizes this week! But did any of the recipients teach an AI to play Street Fighter? Here are a few of this week's stories not yet lauded by international committees of scientists, but which we thought were pretty good:.....»»
Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the power of nanotechnology
The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn't the first Nobel awarded for research in nanotechnology. But it is perhaps the most colorful application of the technology to be associated with the accolade......»»
Oops! Nobel chemistry winners are announced early in rare slip-up
The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday when Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the news prematurely went public......»»
Three giants of chemistry connected by the quantum realm
This year's Nobel Chemistry winners are pioneers in the nanoworld......»»
Colorful quantum dots snag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov laid a vital nanotech foundation. Enlarge / Vials of quantum dots with gradually stepping emission from violet to deep red. (credit: Antipoff/CC BY-SA 3.0) Once thou.....»»
Nobel prize in physics awarded for work unveiling the secrets of electrons
The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering tools used to study the world of electrons......»»
Superconductivity at room temperature remains elusive a century after Nobel Prize for landmark discovery
On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: "near enough null.".....»»
Quantum dots: the tiny "rainbow" crystals behind chemistry Nobel
Quantum dots are tiny crystals that scientists can tune to different colors, giving an extra-vivid pop to next-generation TV screens or illuminating tumors inside bodies so surgeons can hunt them down......»»
Nobel chemistry winner flunked first college chemistry exam
Talk about bouncing back. MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year's Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop "quantum dots"—nanoparticles that are now found in next generation TV screens and help illuminate tumors within the body......»»