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Han Kang receives Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ facing human vulnerability

Han Kang receives Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ facing human vulnerability

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas…
Economics Nobel Prize 2024: Given for explaining why some countries are affluent while others are impoverished

Economics Nobel Prize 2024: Given for explaining why some countries are affluent while others are impoverished

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and…
Nobel Award for Chemistry 2024 – for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins

Nobel Award for Chemistry 2024 – for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein shapes and functions—…
Nobel Peace Prize 2024 – Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo for efforts to rid world of nuclear weapons

Nobel Peace Prize 2024 – Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo for efforts to rid world of nuclear weapons

A Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group made up of survivors of the atomic bombings in Japan during World War II has won the 2024 Nobel Peace…
Singing Scholars Discover Cross-cultural Patterns in Music and Language

Singing Scholars Discover Cross-cultural Patterns in Music and Language

Recent research into the interaction of music and language across cultures has discovered some fascinating patterns that emphasize universal characteristics of human expression. These studies…
Behavior of Marine Plankton may Forecast Future Extinctions

Behavior of Marine Plankton may Forecast Future Extinctions

Marine communities traveled to Antarctica during the Earth’s warmest phase in 66 million years, long before a major extinction occurred. During the Early Eocene Climatic…
200,000 Years Ago, Two Species Interbred to Generate a New Butterfly Species

200,000 Years Ago, Two Species Interbred to Generate a New Butterfly Species

Researchers discovered that the Amazonian butterfly is a hybrid species created by two different species mated together about 200,000 years ago. The discovery, made by…
During the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone linked to the Rib Bones

During the Evolution of Walking, the Hip Bone linked to the Rib Bones

A new reconstruction of the 375-million-year-old fossil fish Tiktaalik, a close relative of limbed vertebrates, utilizes micro-CT to uncover bones that remained trapped in matrix.…
According to a New Study, Mountain Chickadees have Exceptional Memories

According to a New Study, Mountain Chickadees have Exceptional Memories

Mountain chickadees have some of the strongest spatial memories in the animal kingdom. New research reveals the genes involved and sheds light on how a…
Solving the Puzzle of Early Medieval Money

Solving the Puzzle of Early Medieval Money

Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia…
Persian Plateau Revealed as Critical Hub for Early Human Migration Out of Africa

Persian Plateau Revealed as Critical Hub for Early Human Migration Out of Africa

A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has shown the Persian Plateau as a critical geographic area that served as a hub for…
Metallic Hydrogen – a phase of hydrogen

Metallic Hydrogen – a phase of hydrogen

Metallic hydrogen is a phase of hydrogen that behaves as an electrical conductor. Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington predicted this phase in 1935 on…
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