Science prizes

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Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

Severin Carrell and Ian Sample

09, Apr, 2024 @4:54 PM

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Frans de Waal obituary
Primatologist whose studies showed that non-human apes can behave with compassion, cooperation and cunning

Laura Spinney

25, Mar, 2024 @5:00 PM

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‘Unthinkable’: Marie Curie’s Paris lab saved from the bulldozers … for now
Last-minute reprieve keeps Nobel scientist’s legacy standing. Now campaigners want the building to be listed

Kim Willsher in Paris

06, Jan, 2024 @9:42 AM

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Experience: I invented the lickable TV
My creation was well received – the BBC described it as ‘netlicks’

Homei Miyashita

17, Nov, 2023 @10:00 AM

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‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize
Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age

James Tapper

05, Nov, 2023 @6:00 AM

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Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes | Martin Rees
The flaws of the awards, seen by the public as the only game in town, are hindering the pursuit of innovation, says astronomer royal Martin Rees

Martin Rees

12, Oct, 2023 @2:00 PM

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Does winning a Nobel prize make you less productive? Do you get ‘Nobelitis’? Here’s what it did to me | Paul Nurse
There’s something to the notion that Nobel winners create less thereafter, says scientist Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse

10, Oct, 2023 @8:00 AM

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MS Swaminathan obituary
Agricultural scientist who helped India become self-sufficient in food grain production

R Ramakumar

09, Oct, 2023 @5:01 PM

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Scientists share Nobel prize in chemistry for quantum dots discovery
Official announcement comes after trio’s names were leaked in email to Swedish newspaper earlier in the day

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

04, Oct, 2023 @10:19 AM

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Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on electrons
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier share £823,000 prize for work on electron dynamics in matter

Nicola Davis Science correspondent

03, Oct, 2023 @2:18 PM

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Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share £823,000 prize announced by Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

Linda Geddes Science correspondent

02, Oct, 2023 @12:17 PM

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Team behind AI program AlphaFold win Lasker science prize
Award for work on shapes of proteins raises prospect of AI research earning a Nobel for first time

Ian Sample Science editor

21, Sep, 2023 @1:00 PM

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