Explained: What is ‘Manhattan Project’ that Trump called his new government’s efficiency initiative, led by Elon Musk
Donald Trump has likened his proposed ’Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) to the historic Manhattan Project, aiming ...
The Hindu12d
A Nobel prize for explaining why nations fail or succeed
The story so far: The 2024 Economics Nobel prize was awarded to U.S. economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson on Monday “for studies of how institutions are formed and ...
Forbes14d
A Nobel Prize For Data?
Data is eating the world and winning Nobel Prizes, hiding behind better marketing terms such as “artificial intelligence” or “AI.” The 2024 Nobel for Physics was awarded to Geoffrey Hinton ...
The Daily Star18d
124 years on, gender gap in Nobel Prize still persists
Not winning the Nobel Prize did not have any effect on Meitner's reputation as a scientist. On the contrary, she was seen as an exemplary noble scientist by the 1922 physics Nobelist Niels Bohr ...
The New York Times20d
Leon Cooper Dies at 94; Nobelist Unlocked Secrets of Superconductivity
He shared the 1972 physics prize for showing how some materials ... including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli and Richard Feynman, tried to explain how ...
Hindustan Times24d
Just Like That | The ignoble western bias in Nobel Prizes
It is time we institute our own global prizes, and objectively judge those who judge us The Nobel Prizes, except perhaps in the field of science, are riddled with extraneous considerations ...
Phys.org26d
Nobel economics prize: How colonial history explains why strong institutions are vital to a country's prosperity
This year's Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their ...
The Daily Star26d
Apathy, Han Kang and the Nobel Prize for literature
At this point, controversies should not be a surprise when it comes to the Nobel prizes, especially not for literature. With a sexual assault scandal, the awarding of a genocide denier and its ...
Scientific American27d
Don’t Panic. AI Isn’t Coming to End Scientific Exploration
Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence ...
Forbes27d
Three Nobel Prize-Winning Economists On Why Some Countries Are Rich And Others Are Poor
Three men are being awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for their work exploring why some societies prosper and others don’t. Their answer, in a nutshell, lies in government institutions.
The New York Times28d
These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes
Supported by By Teddy Rosenbluth When scientists win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, they typically thank family and colleagues, maybe their universities or whoever funded their research.