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Ig Nobels: Pigeon-guided bombs and drunk worms – spoof Nobel prizes announced | Science & Tech News
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A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year’s spoof Nobel peace prize. The Ig Nobel gongs – awarded annually by the science humour magazine the Annals of Improbable Research – celebrate unusual areas of research that “make people laugh, then think”. Professor Burrhus Frederic Skinner, a psychologist…
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COVID vaccine scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine | Science & Tech News
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The Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to two scientists for their research which led to the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The accolade, among the most prestigious in the scientific world, went to Katalin Kariko, from Hungary, and Drew Weissman, from the United States. “Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally…
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Three scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for ‘snapping molecules together’ to design medicines | World News
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The Nobel chemistry prize has been awarded to three scientists who have developed a way of “snapping molecules together” to design new medicines. “Click chemistry” or bio-orthogonal reactions can be used to produce new cancer drugs and map DNA. It is the work of US scientists Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless, and Morten…
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Swedish scientist Svante Paabo wins Nobel Prize for work on human evolution | Science & Tech News
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A Swedish scientist who used DNA sequencing to find the link between extinct people and modern humans has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Svante Paabo was given what is arguably the most prestigious prize in the scientific world for discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. He…