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*A visit to Orhan Pamuk's new museum -- among other things. http://observatory.designobserver.com/rickpoynor/feature/the-strange-afterlife-of-common-objects/34238/ (...) "After my lecture, as I was about to set out in search of The Works, a French student approached me to mention a nearby museum called The Museum of Innocence, founded by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamu...

When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the universe was speeding up in defiance of cosmic gravity--as if change fell out of your pockets onto the ceiling--it reaffirmed dark energy, the glibly named culprit behind this behavior, as the great cosmic surprise and mystery of our time...from the New York Times (Regist...

Ahmed Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology and has been...

Civil servants are "squandering taxpayers' money" and "misusing public funds" by interfering with science and maths research, according to nine Nobel Prize winners.

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa talks about his latest book, Civilization as Entertainment, in which he examines the way the arts have been reduced to chaos

The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe, and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They're bright enough to see across large distances, and similar enough to act as a "standard candle" - an object of known luminosity. The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating universe using Type Ia su...

Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has condemned the Protection of State Information Bill, calling it a threat to freedom in South Africa.

Orhan Pamuk, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, opened his “Museum of Innocence” in Istanbul on Saturday.

CAIRO -- Reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei launched a new political party Saturday that he said aims to unite Egyptians and save the country's revolution from a messy democratic transition.The Constitution Party marks a return to public life for ElBaradei, who declared in January that he would not run for president and that a fair vote would be impossible during a muddled transition period.Read M...

Back in 2002, psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the economics Nobel Prize for showing that human beings don't have a really good intuitive grasp of risk. Basically, the decisions we make when faced with a risky proposition depend more on how the question is framed than on what the actual outcome might be. The classic example [...]

The police have arrested an IIT graduate, who posed as a Nasa scientist and claimed that he was eligible for a Nobel prize next year, for cheating a middle-aged divorcee of Rs 25 lakh after promising to marry her.

AN ORIGINAL manuscript written in Dublin by Nobel Prize- winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger has resurfaced after almost 60 years.

Germany's most celebrated writer's lyrical warning of a looming Israeli aggression against Iran triggers international rowDuring his long literary career, Günter Grass has been many things. Author, playwright, sculptor and, unquestionably, Germany's most famous living writer. There is the 1999 Nobel prize and Grass's broader postwar role as the country's moral conscience – albeit a claim badly ...

Israel's prime minister lambasted German poet and Nobel Prize laureate Günter Grass for saying Israel is a threat to world peace and for urging international oversight of Israeli and Iranian nuclear facilities.

Graphene, the wonder material that earned two researchers the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics and that has been the subject of countless scientific studies and news articles, has certainly spent some time in the limelight. Now it may take center stage under the microscope. [More]

Right-wing fanatic Breivik, who admitted to killing 77 people, planned, to kill the US president at the Nobel Prize awards.

Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - The L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Ceremony, presided by Professor Günter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999, took place last night at UNESCO headquarters. Five exceptional women scientists who contribute to resolving major global challenges were …

A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to win her man. Esteemed American playwright Eugene O'Neill, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature, created a fierce literary heroine who does just that in his 1943 tragedy, "A Moon for the Misbegotten."

Federal Reserve bets against line of thinking that won Milton Friedman his Nobel prize

"Not only has Barack Obama failed to change anything, not only has he continued the policies of the Bush and previous administrations, he has gone over and beyond their treachery. The country has already slid down the slippery slope of unbridled capitalism, anti-unionism and anti-humanism. The Nobel Prize seems like somebody's idea of a bad joke".

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- When Harvard basketball coach Tommy Amaker would meet with recruits, he talked to them about the doors they could open with a degree from the nation's most prestigious university: Nobel Prize winner, president of the United States, and even NBA star....

When someone says Einstein, you think "E=mc2," Relativity, and funny haircuts. But most of us don't have a clue about the specific scientific contributions he made. That ain't right. So here's Minute Physics breaking down one of the scientific breakthroughs that turned the German patent clerk into a Nobel Prize winner. [MinutePhysics] More » ...

Turns out that the man who put the world on notice that the Earth’s protective ozone layer was being destroyed by chemicals had some skills beside chemistry.

Turns out that the man who put the world on notice that the Earth’s protective ozone layer was being destroyed by chemicals had some skills beside chemistry Like turning a double play, or making an outside jumper. Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland, a 1995 Nobel Prize winner who died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar, was a star basketball player in high school and played semipro baseball in Canada a...

At the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Benchmark Capital Partner Matt Cohler took to the stage to talk about the state of the venture capital industry. In so doing, Cohler said that he thought too many investors were becoming focused on risk mitigation, which can often deter investors from going after companies that may be building something really big, trying to change the world -- but ...

AMERICA’S FIRST Nobel Prize winner for economics, the late Paul Samuelson, was fond of saying that God gave economists two eyes and it was up to them to use them. The euro zone crisis is, among other things, an academic argument between two economic traditions, each accusing the other of limited vision while themselves having only one eye open.

by Vasudevan Vasudevan National Science day     Today is celebrated as national Scince day  to honour Sir C V Raman for his discovery of the Raman effect in 1928  earning him the Nobel prize in 1930. I had the good fortune to hear him,  way back in the sixties, when he  was  chief guest at a Jubilee celebration of the  the then UDCT ,the present ICT Mumbai my alma mater. The lecture  outlinin...

The Nobel Prize goes to individuals who display excellence in their discipline, and now Sweden wants to show its excellence in food

Shechtman says Israel's future as a leader in research and innovation will be bleak without investment.

Ms. Szymborska was a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Dr. Vale helped identify the hormones through which the brain governs basic bodily functions and was involved in a combative race for the Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize winner said his decision was in protest of the military’s failure to put Egypt on the path to democracy.

Steve Jobs died the month that the latest Nobel Prize winners were announced. The coincidence lends itself to speculation about inevitability.

JRR Tolkien was passed over for the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature after his storytelling in The Lord of the Rings was described as second rate, papers reveal.

The Nobel prize winning scientist, considered as the founder of modern physics, politely declined the invitation saying he wanted to join Princeton University in America.

A court in China sentenced a veteran dissident, Chen Xi, to 10 years in jail for subversion- the heaviest sentence given for political charges since Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo was jailed two years ago.

Poland's communist secret police organised an elaborate ruse to trick the Nobel Peace Prize committee into thinking Lech Walesa was a collaborator in an attempt to stop the Solidarity activist receiving the honour.

The rule against posthumous Nobel Prizes has been violated several times — most recently when the prize in medicine was given to the widow of a Rockefeller University scientist.

Mariel Hemingway has exclusive access to Finca Vigia outside of Havana where the author wrote the Nobel prize winning The Old Man And The Sea.

Five Nobel prize winners, including Desmond Tutu, urge China to free fellow laureate Liu Xiaobo on the eve of this year's award ceremony.

TWELVE months ago Brian Schmidt was living a routine life, working Monday to Friday in Canberra and trying his hand at winemaking after hours.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A winner of the Nobel prize in economics says that a decade ago he feared the euro would face problems because there wasn't enough fiscal coordination between countries to support it....

Among the topics discussed at Monday’s Top American Leaders forum? Body image. The Washington Post and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership hosted the event, honoring seven people as the new Top American Leaders: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R); former FDIC chairwoman Sheila Bair; Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas; Freeman A. Hrabowski II, president of the University of Maryland B...

CAIRO — Egypt’s top reformist leader said Sunday the liberal youth behind the country’s uprising have been “decimated” in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hard-line religious elements advocating extremist ideas such as banning women from driving. Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Prize laureate and possible presidential candidate, said he hopes mod...

If the multi-billion-dollar Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the so-called Doomsday Machine, creates the so-called God Particle, thereby showing the world why stuff has mass, then someone will have to get a Nobel Prize for it

US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton has ended her visit to Burma with a second visit to the home of Nobel Prize winner and civil rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

Despite boasting Africa's first female president and a Nobel prize for women's rights, Liberia's women are still vulnerable to the threat of rape.

KARACHI - Following the success of the legendary White Musk which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, there is another launch of new fragrance - White Musk Libertine. The Body Shop worked with the world’s largest privately owned and Nobel Prize winning fragrance house Firmenich and its leading perfumer Dr.… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

Each year, 12 of the nation's top scientists and engineers are awarded with the nation's highest honors, America's Nobel Prize. The National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation represent the highest honors for achievement in science & technology bestowed by the President of the United States. This year scientists and engineers were honored for groundbreakin...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu won a Nobel Prize in physics, but his handling of a solar energy loan has some critics calling him clueless....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said it may take similar skills to navigate Washington politics as it does to make advances in physics research, a field in which he won a Nobel Prize in 1997.

BOSTON (AP) -- Norman Ramsey, who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into atomic energy levels that led to the creation of the atomic clock and MRI machines, has died. He was 96....

Dr. Ramsey received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for his invention of a laboratory technique to measure the frequencies of electromagnetic radiation most readily absorbed by atoms and molecules.

In the past 50 years, 78 Gairdner awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize for medicine

President Obama’s evolving approach to national security as set out in his Nobel Prize speech lacks bumper-sticker simplicity.