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    Physics

    LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics

    The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.

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    Technology

    Nobel Prize Awarded for Biological Clock Discoveries

    Three U.S. biologists share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into the molecular mechanism that drives circadian rhythm.

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    Physics

    Nobel Prize Awarded for Quantum Topology

    Three physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for rewriting our understanding of exotic quantum states on the surfaces of materials.

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    Communication

    Is the Nobel Prize Good for Science?

    Yesterday, CNN Money published an article headlined, “Nobel prize winner tells Clinton: Tax fossil fuels.” The winner in question was Joseph Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University, who received the prize 15 years ago. As you might expect, the Nobel is hardly his only accolade. He’s not only the World Bank’s former chief economist and […]

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    Philosophy

    This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity

    Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein reached and swayed the 1921 Nobel committee.

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    Microbiology

    One Big Question Not Answered by Today’s Nobel Winners

    Earlier today three US-based researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on vesicles, special structures that ferry all kinds of molecules around biological cells, and are fundamental to those cells’ functioning. Their findings provide some key background for our understanding of life—information that will fill textbooks for decades—though they lack […]