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Israeli wins chemistry Nobel for quasicrystals (Update 3)
Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for a discovery that faced skepticism and mockery, even prompting his expulsion from his U.S. research team, before it ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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California physicist shares 2011 Nobel Prize
Saul Perlmutter won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, but it wasn't until the California scientist was awakened by a telephone call from a reporter in Sweden that he learned of the distinction. ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Studies of universe's expansion win physics Nobel (Update 3)
Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Swedish probe into Nobel corruption to close: prosecutor
Sweden is to close its investigation into allegations of corruption at the heart of several of the prestigious Nobel prize science committees, a prosecutor announced Friday.
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Report warns of urbanization swell by 2050
We hear and read a lot about our human carbon footprint but what do we know about our urban footprint? According to a new United Nations (UN) report, this urban footprint will expand by another 1.2 million ...
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Md. prof shares Nobel over faster growing universe
A Johns Hopkins University professor was one of a trio of scientists awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate, contrary to s ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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The American 'allergy' to global warming: Why?
(AP) -- Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.
Sep 24, 2011 |
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A new research report shows effects of climate change in the Arctic are more extensive than expected
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on snow and permafrost.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 04, 2011 |
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Extending Moore's Law: Expitaxial graphene shows promise for replacing silicon in electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over silicon. There's a new electronic material in town, and it goes fast. That material, the focus of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, is graphene -- a fancy name for extremely thin ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 07, 2011 |
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Quakes don't completely shake China's environmental gains, thanks to conservation programs
The impact of China's devastating 2008 earthquake was substantially lessened by environmental conservation programs for some of the country's most fragile habitats, according to research published in a journal ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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The noise about graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- In last week’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences lauded graphene’s "exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 15, 2010 |
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Labour market specialists win Nobel Economics prize
Three labour market specialists, including one nominated but blocked for the US Federal Reserve board, won the 2010 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for analysing and helping tackle unemployment.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 11, 2010 |
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Surprised chemistry Nobel Prize winner says lab days over
American Richard Heck, who shared this year's Nobel Prize for chemistry with two Japanese scientists, said Thursday he was surprised at the honour for his groundbreaking work. ...
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Carbon atom pioneers share Nobel chemistry prize (Update 4)
Three scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for forging a toolkit to manipulate carbon atoms, paving the way for new drugs to fight cancer and for revolutionary plastics.
Oct 06, 2010 |
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