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......»»
Nobel panel to announce winner of physics prize
The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in physics will be announced Tuesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm......»»
Nobel in Medicine goes to the man who brought us the Neanderthal genome
Svante Pääbo played a central role in developing ways of looking into humanity's past. Enlarge (credit: Karsten Möbius) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to a single recipient on Monday: Svante Pääbo.....»»
Nobel shines light on paleogenetics, study of ancient DNA
While some may have been surprised that the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to a paleogeneticist Monday, researchers say understanding our distant ancestors helps explain modern human health—even when it comes to COVID......»»
Medicine Prize opens Nobel week clouded by war
Breast cancer discoveries and mRNA vaccines are seen as possible winners when the Nobel Medicine Prize kicks off a week of winner announcements on Monday, with this year's awards held under the shadow of war in Europe......»»
Swede Paabo wins Nobel Medicine Prize for sequencing Neanderthal DNA
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize......»»
Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes
The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season. Six days, six prizes, new faces from around the globe added to the world's most elite roster of scientists, writers, economists and human rights leaders......»»
Nobel Prize season arrives amid war, nuclear fears, hunger
This year's Nobel Prize season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster......»»
Exploring the reality of unread Stasi files
Many people—including public figures such as Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and trade union leader Claus Weselsky—choose not to read their Stasi files. How can this behavior be explained? And what are.....»»
Quantum Physics Titans Win Breakthrough Prize
This year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors some of the pioneers of quantum information science.....»»
AlphaFold Developers Win $3-Million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
DeepMind’s system for predicting the 3D structure of proteins is among five recipients of science’s most lucrative awards.....»»
This stunning photo of Comet Leonard won astronomy photography’s top prize
A spectacular photo of Comet Leonard has defied the odds and taken home the top prize of the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest for 2022. The photo was captured by astrophotographer Gerald Rhemann on Christmas.....»»
Here are the winners of the 2022 Ig Nobel Prizes
Maya ritual enemas, constipated scorpions, and moose crash test dummies feature. Enlarge / The Ig Nobel Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images).....»»
Constipated scorpions, love at first sight inspire Ig Nobels
The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific a.....»»
Her work helped her boss win the Nobel Prize. Now the spotlight is on her
Scientists have long studied the work of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian-born American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1983, but few know that his research on stellar and planetary dynamics owes a deep debt of gratitude to an almost.....»»
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics
"Soft matter" was first proposed by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in his Nobel acceptance speech in 1991. The term describes materials between aqueous substances and ideal solids......»»
Human trafficking’s newest abuse: Forcing victims into cyberscamming
Thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people everywhere. Enlarge (credit: Aitor Diago via Getty Images) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story.....»»
Peak Design launches iPhone 14 event guessing game with $10k garbage bag grand prize
Peak Design is holding a fun guessing game ahead of the “Far out” iPhone 14 event that’s set for September 7. Along with a garbage bag filled with $10,000 as the grand prize 500 others will have the chance to win a free iPhone case. more… T.....»»
Understanding the Inner Workings of Stars [Sponsored]
Conny Aerts is an astrophysicist and a pioneer of asteroseismology. This year she shared the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for her research and leadership that has laid the foundations of solar and stellar structure theory, and revolutionized our under.....»»
Apple Original podcasts will get bulked up through deal with Futuro Studios
Apple has signed a deal with Pulitzer-prize winner Futuro Studios and is now courting other companies in hopes of turning the podcasts into Apple TV+ original content.Future Studios, known for the criminal-justice series "Suave," has signed a deal th.....»»
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others, and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one.....»»