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......»»
Watch Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Jean-Philippe Vassal"s Royal Academy lecture
Jean-Philippe Vassal, along with his Lacaton & Vassal co-founder Anne Lacaton, won the Pritzker Architecture Prize earlier this week. In this lecture, he explains the ideology behind the studio's work. Read more Jean-Philippe Vassal, along.....»»
Will China"s Government-Subsidized Technology Ultimately Export Authoritarianism?
For 30 years David E. Sanger has been covering foreign policy and nuclear proliferation for The New York Times — twice working on Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. But now as American and Chinese officials meet in Alaska, Sanger argues that China's.....»»
This week Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal won the Pritzker Architecture Prize
This week on Dezeen, we celebrated refurbishment experts Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal being named the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Read more This week on Dezeen, we celebrated refurbishment experts Anne Lacaton.....»»
"Generosity is absolutely essential in any act of architecture" says Jean-Philippe Vassal
In this previously unpublished interview, Lacaton & Vassal co-founder Jean-Philippe Vassal explained why the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning studio believes that buildings should be renovated instead of demolished. Read more In thi.....»»
High-efficiency pulse compression established on solitons in nonlinear Kerr resonators
Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high spatial quality has opened up possibilities for ultrafast and strong-field science. It is so important that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was given to Dr. Strickland and Dr. Mourou for inventing a tech.....»»
"Awarding the Pritzker to a team synonymous with refurbs marks an important shift in architectural values"
Lacaton & Vassal's Pritzker Architecture Prize win reinforces the need to focus much more on our city's existing buildings, says Phineas Harper. Read more Lacaton & Vassal's Pritzker Architecture Prize win reinforces the need to focus much m.....»»
Cybersecurity pioneers win mathematics Abel Prize
The Abel Prize, which honours achievements in mathematics, was awarded Wednesday to Hungarian Laszlo Lovasz and Israeli Avi Wigderson for their contributions to computer security, the Norwegian Academy of Science said......»»
Ten key projects by Pritzker Prize-winners Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
Here are 10 key projects by French architect duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, who have been named this year's laureates of the prestigious Pritzker Prize. Read more Here are 10 key projects by French architect duo Anne Lacaton and.....»»
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal win Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021
Social housing architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, founders of French studio Lacaton & Vassal, have been named the 2021 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Read more Social housing architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Phili.....»»
Discovery of "knock-on chemistry" opens new frontier in reaction dynamics
Research by a team of chemists at the University of Toronto, led by Nobel Prize-winning researcher John Polanyi, is shedding new light on the behavior of molecules as they collide and exchange atoms during chemical reaction. The discovery casts doubt.....»»
Molybdenum disulfide ushers in era of post-silicon photonics
Researchers of the Center for Photonics and Two-Dimensional Materials at MIPT, together with their colleagues from Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, and Singapore, including co-creator of the world's first 2-D material and Nobel laureate Konstantin Novos.....»»
Love Island"s Molly-Mae Hague broke rules with Instagram giveaway
The advertising watchdog reprimands the social media influencer over an Instagram prize draw......»»
Molly-Mae Hague"s Instagram giveaway broke prize draw rules
The advertising watchdog reprimands the Love Island star over the way winners were picked......»»
Scientists use DNA origami to monitor CRISPR gene targeting
The remarkable genetic scissors called CRISPR/Cas9, the discovery that won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sometimes cut in places that they are not designed to target. Though CRISPR has completely changed the pace of basic research by allowing sc.....»»
Win an InsideTracker Prize Package worth $1,725 and optimize your health
InsideTracker, the personalized nutrition and fitness app that uses data from your blood and DNA, is giving away a prize package worth $1,725!.....»»
Richard Rogers balances his final building over Provence vineyard
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers has designed a gallery that cantilevers 18 metres out above the hillside at the Château La Coste vineyard in southern France. Read more Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers has des.....»»
How Mars became the prize for the new space race – and why China is hellbent on winning it
Looking at its achievements over the past decade, nobody would doubt China is aiming to win the new space race. Not only has it been the only country to land on the Moon in about 40 years, and the first to soft land on its far side, it has also plant.....»»
Frank Gehry teases plans to build raised parks over the Los Angeles River
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has revealed his ideas for updating the masterplan for the Los Angeles River, which include platform parks on stilts bridging the waterway. Read more Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry h.....»»
Paul Crutzen, who shared Nobel for ozone work, has died
Paul J. Crutzen, a Dutch scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work understanding the ozone hole and is credited with coining the term Anthropocene to describe the geological era shaped by mankind, has died......»»
Are Experts Underselling the Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines?
David Leonhardt won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2011. This week in a New York Times newsletter, he argues that early in the pandemic experts around the world mistakenly discouraged mask use because of "a concern that people would rush to buy h.....»»