Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human: The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. In other …
Explaining the 2021 Nobel prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah – podcast: Our sense of touch is actually lots of different senses rolled into one. Yevhen Prozhyrko/Shutterstock Six prize announcements later, 12 men and one woman from 11 countries are now settling down to their …
South Africa in the news: Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel literature prize: Abdulrazak Gurnah is the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel prize in literature since Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in 1986. | THE INDEPENDENT | The 2021 Nobel prize in Literature has been …: “South Africa” – BingNews Uplifting SA youth through science …
Nobel economics prize winners showed economists how to turn the real world into their laboratory: People power. Che Media The Nobel committee’s decision to award its economics prize for 2021 to David Card, Josh Angrist and Guido Imbens marks the culmination of a revolution in the way economists approach the world that began more than …
Abdulrazak Gurnah: what you need to know about the Nobel prize-winning author: Alamy/Bloomsbury Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian novelist, who is based in the UK, was awarded the prize for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in …
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: an introduction to the man and his writing: Abdulrazak Gurnah during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017. Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it …
Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction traces small lives with wit and tenderness: Abdulrazak Gurnah captivatingly draws readers into the experiences and vivid lifeworlds of his characters Getty Images For those of us who have read and reread, taught, and written about the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel Prize in Literature committee has confirmed what …
Maria Ressa: Nobel prize-winner risks life and liberty to hold Philippines government to account: The importance of journalists who take considerable risks to bring people the truth in countries where this involves going up against authoritarian governments has been recognised by the Nobel committee’s decision to award the 2021 peace prize to Maria Ressa of …
Nobel peace prize: how Dmitry Muratov built Russia’s ‘bravest’ newspaper, Novaya Gazeta: In 1993, Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev used part of his Nobel peace prize money to help set up the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, buying the publication its first computers. Nearly 30 years later, the paper has another Nobel peace prize in its history. …
South Africa in the news: Meet Nobel Prize Winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, from Tanzania: The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it went to novelist …: “South Africa” – BingNews Oct 8: People urged …
Nobel Prize for groundbreaking way of building molecules that made chemistry greener: List (left) and MacMillan (right) are winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. NobelPrize.org, CC BY-SA Benjamin List and David MacMillan, respectively from Germany and the US, will share the 10 million Swedish kronor (£870,000) Nobel prize in chemistry 2021 for their …
South Africa in the news: Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus named as second recipient of Olympic Laurel: Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will follow in the footsteps of legendary Kenyan Olympic champion Kip Keino when he receives the …: “South Africa” – BingNews Epic Sky Q deals end today, but there’s another cheap …
South Africa in the news: Power to the women! Trio shares Nobel Peace Prize: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, compatriot “peace warrior” Leymah Gbowee and Yemen’s Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday in a nod to women’s empowerment.: “South Africa” – BingNews South Africa riots – Starving rioters say they …
Einsteinium: 100 years after Einstein’s Nobel Prize, researchers reveal chemical secrets of element that bears his name: Albert Einstein photographed on a trip to America in the wake of his Nobel prize-winning discoveries. Harris & Ewing/PICRYL A century ago, an upstart German physicist by the name of Albert Einstein turned the scientific world on its …
What a link between chocolate and Nobel prizes reveals about our trust in scientists: Denys Niezhientsev/Shutterstock Wouldn’t it be great if chocolate were good for you? It’s no wonder many news outlets leap on any scrap of research that appears to show potential benefits to eating the tasty treat. But the history of such coverage …
Nobel economics prize: Wilson and Milgrom’s insights into auctions could drive down carbon emissions: Many would argue that the global financial crisis of 2007-09 taught us not just the irrelevance but the dangers of economic theory. Yet the Nobel committee has awarded its economic prize for 2020 to two high theorists – Robert Wilson and …
Louise Glück: literature Nobel for American lyric poet a healing choice after years of controversy: Louise Glück is the first poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Tomas Tranströmer in 2011 and the first American to win since Toni Morrison in 1993. In their preference for the muddiness of everyday life over explicit …
Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme can’t build peace on its own: By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the eyes of the world to the millions of people who suffer …