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2024 Nobel Peace Prize, A Plea In Favour Of World Order?

With wars raging around the world, the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded Friday could honour ardent defenders of world order, such as the International Court of Justice, UNRWA or UN chief Antonio Guterres.

International Business Times

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi calls for peace in Middle East from Iran jail

Activist’s treatment at Evin prison has become even more severe since she was awarded prize last year

The Guardian - UK

Argentina MPs Back Milei's Veto Of University Funding

Argentine lawmakers on Wednesday upheld President Javier Milei's veto of funding increases for public universities, handing him a key victory in his months-long standoff with teachers and students.

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Maths schools top the A-level rankings – and their students only study Stem subjects

The school that topped the Times newspaper’s A-Level rankings in 2024 only permits students to sit A-levels in three subjects: maths, further maths and physics. At King’s College London Mathematics School, 76.2% of students got an A* – and 99.5% of students achieved between A*-B.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins

The Independent UK

Baker, Jumper, Hassabis win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on proteins

‘They cracked the code’; laureates hailed for revealing proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence.

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Nobel Peace Prize To Be Awarded As Wars Rage

The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday, a ray of light in a dark year for world peace, with the International Court of Justice, UNRWA and UN chief Antonio Guterres seen as favourites.

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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton for machine learning discoveries

The Nobel Prize in physics was on Tuesday awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

France 24

Nobel Scientist Uncovered Tiny Genetic Switches With Big Potential

Harvard geneticist Gary Ruvkun vividly remembers the late-night phone call with his longtime friend and now 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate Victor Ambros, when they made their groundbreaking discovery of genetic switches that exist across the tree of life.

International Business Times

Nobel Prize 2024: Three US academics who researched global inequality take final prizes for year

This year’s winners of the prestigious awards are being announced from October 7 to 14

Evening Standard

US duo Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun win Nobel medicine for microRNA discovery

Scientists win prize for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.

Al Jazeera

Nobel Prizes 2024: How do nominations work?

Here’s a look at all those who can nominate people for the Nobels. The list is long – very long.

Al Jazeera

Cancer, Cardiovascular Drugs Tipped For Nobel As Prize Week Opens

Cancer research or drugs treating cardiovascular illnesses could win a Nobel Prize on Monday when a week of laureate announcements kicks off, bringing a ray of optimism to a world beset by crises.

International Business Times

The Nobel Prizes will be announced against a backdrop of wars, famine and artificial intelligence

Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes

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Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data

Five regions of the planet were claimed to hold the key to living past 100. Research by Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing shows the truth isn’t that simple, writes Kevin E G Perry

The Independent UK

Palestinian, Filipino and Mozambican activists and a London research agency given human rights award

The Right Livelihood Award has been given to activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique as well as to a U_K_ research agency for making "a profound impact on their communities.”

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Upcoming Nobel prizes offer glimmer of hope as global crises mount

Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will crown achievements that made the world a better place, a glimmer of optimism amid a spiralling Middle East conflict, war in Ukraine, famine in Sudan and a collapsing climate.

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Mexico has a trailblazing new president. But does she have any new ideas to tackle spiralling crime?

On October 1, Claudia Sheinbaum will take an oath, receive a sash and become the first female president of Mexico.

The Guardian - UK

Can you solve it? The box problem that baffled the boffins

This puzzle is a gift

The Guardian - UK

What’s the secret of the supercentenarians? They don’t really exist

Many people say they’re living to 100-plus years. But research lauded with an Ig Nobel prize shows some claims are spurious

The Guardian - UK

Robert Stern obituary

Other lives: Professor at Sheffield University who was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation

International Business Times

S.Africa's HIV Research Power Couple Says Fight Goes On

Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health power couple Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim are credited with saving thousands of lives.

Marie Claire

Emma Mackey has found her power

“I don't think empowerment is something that can be cultivated individually; it's something that needs to be fed and nourished by other people.”

International Business Times

Backside Breathing And Pigeon Bombers Studies Win Ig Nobel Prizes

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels, the quirky alternative to the Nobel prizes.

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