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Key things you need to know about this year's Nobel Prizes in Sweden
In 1969, Sweden's Riksbank central bank, funded an economics prize "in memorial of Alfred Nobel", adding a seventh prize. The winners are always announced at the start of October and the ...
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Duo for Machine Learning
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of University of ...
Nobel Prize in medicine honors American duo for their discovery of microRNA
The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The ...
Neural Networks Co-Inventor Hinton Wins Physics Nobel, Fears AI
On October 8, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to a computer scientist and a physicist for “for foundational discoveries ...
Nobel literature jury may go for non-Western writer: Experts
The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly Western writers since it was first awarded in 1901, but the Swedish ...
5 Nobel-worthy discoveries that haven’t won the prize
Here are five breakthroughs that haven’t resulted in a life-changing call from Stockholm — at least not yet. The first human ...