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The development of quantum dots wins the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry

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Work on tiny dots that light up TV screens and help doctors see the blood vessels that feed tumors has earned three scientists the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry.  

Chemist Moungi Bawendi, chemist Louis Brus and physicist Alexei Ekimov split the prize for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 4.

Chemist Moungi Bawendi (left), chemist Louis Brus (middle) and physicist Alexei Ekimov (right) have split the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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Technique to see the ultrafast world of electrons wins 2023 physics Nobel

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Glimpses of the ultrafast world of electrons are changing scientists’ vision of the inner workings of atoms and molecules. The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics goes to three physicists who illuminated this realm with ultrashort pulses of light, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced October 3.

Physicists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will split the 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1 million) prize, awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of

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And the winner is… Covid vaccines! Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to US scientist and Hungarian peer who helped create game-changing mRNA jabs

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Two scientists whose pioneering work helped create mRNA Covid vaccines were today awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. 

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were credited with helping to change the course of the pandemic.

Before mRNA jabs were rolled out to millions of people worldwide to protect them against Covid, such technology was considered experimental. Researchers are now exploring if it could help beat cancer and other diseases.

Karikó, 68, and Weissman, 64, first met in the 1990s while working

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The weirdest studies of the year are revealed in the spoof ‘Ig Nobel’ awards – from research into the sex lives of ANCHOVIES to an experiment to explore whether there is an equal number of hairs in each nostril

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Keeping count of nostril hairs and investigating the promiscuity of anchovies may seem completely unrelated. 

But these studies are among 10 others to win this year’s spoof ‘Ig Nobels’, thanks to their ability to make scientists chuckle. 

Traditionally hosted at Harvard University, this ceremony is the 33rd of its kind, and sees genuine Nobel laureates handing out awards to lucky academics.

The prize is ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars, which might sound like a huge amount, but is actually only the

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A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War’s African Front

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Armies, like writers, prey on orphans and misfits. Scenes of military recruitment have been a literary staple at least since Bulgarian soldiers kidnapped Voltaire’s Candide, but few are more bleakly memorable than the one at the end of “Paradise” (1994), by the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. It’s around the time of the First World War. Yusuf, a runaway servant in what’s now Tanzania, wanders into a camp abandoned by askari, or local troops, who have occupied his coastal town in

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MailOnline reveals the wackiest winners of the annual Ig Nobel Prize

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Last night the annual Ig Nobel awards took place, marking another year of weird and wonderful scientific achievements getting the recognition they deserve. 

This year’s winners include a study into the sex lives of constipated scorpions, an experiment involving a moose crash-test dummy, and research into why ducklings swim in a line behind their mother. 

An annual spoof on the Nobel Prize, the Ig Nobel Awards honour research that ‘makes you laugh then makes you think’.

The awards are usually

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Gericht auf den Philippinen erlaubt Maria Ressa, für Nobel nach Norwegen zu reisen

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Das Berufungsgericht der Philippinen sagte am Freitag, es würde der Journalistin Maria Ressa erlauben, nach Norwegen zu reisen, um den Friedensnobelpreis zu erhalten, und hob damit eine Entscheidung der Regierung auf, sie von der Teilnahme an der Zeremonie abzuhalten.

Der Anwalt von Frau Ressa, Ted Te, hat letzten Monat Berufung eingelegt für seinen Klienten, nachdem der Generalstaatsanwalt der Philippinen sagte, der Journalist könne nicht nach Norwegen reisen. Die Regierung bezeichnete sie als Fluchtgefahr, weil ihre “wiederkehrende Kritik an den philippinischen

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