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Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive stars gone supernova. (credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) When the Nobel Prizes roll around each year, inevitably there is chatter not just about who will win, but about those in the past who should have won, but didn’t, particularly women scientists. Jocelyn Bell […]
Getty Images Kofi Annan has died aged 80. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has died aged 80.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: How a black cop infiltrated the KKK — the true story behind Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ See Also: Your opinion matters — Join […]
Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the sequel to the anxiety-inducing Sicario, is one of the summer’s dark horse films. No one was asking for a sequel to Sicario, but maybe it’ll turn out to be an entertaining surprise. At the very least, this new Sicario: Day of the Soldado clip indicates the film will have plenty of intense moments. […]
Opinion: Given the dearth of women receiving the top science prizes, it’s time for the Nobel Committee to revamp how it awards great work. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b085233899fa20f71de722a/master/pass/mariagoeppertmayer-515489470.jpg
Five academics from universities across the country are being awarded the prestigious Killam Prize, which honours researchers, scientists, doctors and scholars whose body of work has bettered the lives of people in Canada and beyond.
Lewis Kay, a Toronto researcher who developed a technique to watch microscopic proteins reposition themselves and change their shapes within cells, has won the $ 1 million Herzberg Gold Medal, Canada’s top science prize.
Pool/Getty Images A group of Republican members of Congress on Wednesday nominated President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on North Korea’s nuclear program. Republican Rep. Luke Messer of Indiana sent a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee formally nominating the president, stating Trump was bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula via […]
Donald Trump should win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end a standoff with North Korea over nuclear weapons, according to South Korea’s president. Moon Jae-in said Monday: “President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.” Trump threatened war with North Korea multiple times and pushed very […]
Stanford’s John Hennessy, now chair of Google parent Alphabet, and Berkeley’s David Patterson developed the Reduced Instruction Set Computer in the 1980s. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ab1a93aec5e9b19adb81e03/master/pass/TuringAward-Hennessey-web.jpg
Alexander Payne‘s Downsizing hits Blu-ray this week. In honor of the release, we have a prize pack for those of you who enjoy free things. See the details for the Downsizing contest below. If you’d like to get your hands on a Downsizing Blu-ray, or some other Downsize-related items, today is your lucky day. In honor of the film’s […]
