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The Nobel Prize-winning 'godfather of AI' says he's glad one of his students had a hand in ousting Sam Altman from OpenAI
"I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman," Hinton said on Tuesd…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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A woman's chance for equal pay plummets when she has a kid — and never recovers, says the newest Harvard economist to win the Nobel Prize
Claudia Goldin has studied wage gaps and women's labor for decades. Now she's won the Nobel.
Juliana Kaplan
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How Nobel economists spend their $1 million winnings
Nobel Prize winners won over $1 million this year. Some past laureates have used their money on eve…
Juliana Kaplan
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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations
Lise Meitner discovered how the process of nuclear fission works but she never won a Nobel Prize an…
Adam Barnes
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Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi win Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in climate, complex physical systems
Manabe from Princeton University, US and Hasselmann from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,…
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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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Former Fed boss Ben Bernanke wins Nobel Prize in economics with 2 others for their work on financial crises
Bernanke will share the prize with two other economists who have shown shown "why avoiding bank col…
George Glover
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Three US-based economists win Nobel prize for Economics
Card's studies of core questions for society and Angrist and Imbens' methodological contribu…
PTI
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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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Nobel Prize-winning physicist urges Italians to cook pasta with the stove off to save 8 minutes of gas and reduce soaring energy bills
Chefs reportedly said pasta "will cook really badly" and turn sticky if the heat is turned off. But…
Kate Duffy
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Ever wondered why women get a raw deal at work? Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin has all the answers
Winning a Nobel Memorial prize in Economics is an extraordinary feat in itself but Claudia Goldin’s…
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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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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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NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon. The first spacecraft to use it could make Nobel Prize-winning discoveries about the universe.
NASA's patenting a new route to lunar orbit assures that the path will remain open to any spacecraf…
Dave Mosher
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Orgasms are as effective as medicine at treating a blocked and snotty nose, according to an award-winning study
Researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into how good sex may affect nasal breathing a…
Andrea Michelson
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Paul Romer and William Nordhaus win the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics
Although the prize cannot technically be considered a Nobel Prize as it was not established in the …