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A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Elon Musk for the Nobel Peace Prize
The billionaire was selected by Norwegian MP Marius Nilsen, who praised him for his "adamant defens…
Beatrice Nolan
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering ‘the darkest secrets of the universe’
The Nobel Prize in Physics this year will be split between three laureates. One half goes to Roger …
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 'unusual' candidate who discovered that modern humans and Neanderthals had children together
Svante Pääbo's discovery of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA help us unpack what makes our own genes h…
Hilary Brueck
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Jared Kushner has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize a second time for his work on the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords sought to normalize ties between Israel and several Middle Eastern nations.
Cheryl Teh
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Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M Rice jointly win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
The Nobel Prize week has kicked off amid the coronavirus pandemic with the first of the awards go…
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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian jointly win Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch
The Nobel laureates' discoveries have unlocked one of the secrets of nature by explaining the mo…
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Nobel Prize 2020 in Economics goes to Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wils…
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World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization that promotes food s…
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American poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Glück was born 1943 in New York and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a pr…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win the prestigious award for genome editing
The winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry are Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna…
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Greta Thunberg's fans are upset she didn't win the Nobel Prize, but a peace expert says she should have never been a contender
But that doesn't mean climate change isn't linked to peace. The US Pentagon classifies climate chan…
Aylin Woodward
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A Nobel prizing winning economist nails why Trump supporters reject the thing that will help them most
"At every speech I give to students - when I get to the Q&A - they say, you had so many opportu…
Linette Lopez
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Scientists who developed drugs to treat parasites that affect nearly 3.5 billion people just won a Nobel
River blindness (onchocerciasis), which afflicts at least 25 million people worldwide, causes chron…
Tanya Lewis
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Einstein's last message was a dire warning against nuclear war that's still relevant today. Here's what it said.
The Russell-Einstein manifesto warned nuclear weapons could end humanity. The physicist felt remors…
Jenny McGrath
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Beyond the beatings, here’s a look at the beats of the Bengal election — from Bella Ciao to electronic tunes
While dragging Tagore for political points, unprecedented as it was in recent decades, remaine…
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What happened when the Trinity test bomb detonated, from the creation of green glass to fallout that drifted over 1,000 miles
The Manhattan Project's Trinity test bomb detonated on July 16, 1945. The light, noise, shockwave, …
Jenny McGrath
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What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project
One of the Manhattan Project sites, Los Alamos, required a whole new city to be built for scientist…