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Towards Modern Alchemy

Gates Cambridge Scholars | Posted 06.02.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Shinya Yamanaka, John Gurdon, Nobel Prize, Medicine. Stem Cells, Student Life, UK Universities & Education News
Gates Cambridge Scholars

Monday, October 8th 2012 could have been a morning like any other in the Gurdon lab, save for a few unique exceptions. To begin with, this was the first time my supervisor, Sir John Gurdon, had ever been late to one of our weekly lab meetings.

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China's Growing Influence

Endeavour Press | Posted 24.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Nobel Prize, Humphrey Hawskley, Economic Growth, Superpower, China, UK Business, UK Politics News
Endeavour Press

What do the British water system, a Greek container port, a Nobel literature prize and a torn national flag on a barren island have in common?

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Criticisms and Defences of Science and Technology Prizes

Dr Ainomaija Haarla | Posted 22.12.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: UK Education, Science Prizes, Technology Prize, Nobel Prize, STEM Education, UK Tech News
Dr Ainomaija Haarla

Ultimately a prize will only gain credibility amongst the scientific community over time, as it develops a track record of picking scientists who go on to be widely followed and regarded.

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Want to Win a Nobel Prize? Just Eat More Chocolate!

Aidan Goggins | Posted 18.12.2012 | UK
Read More: Alzheimer's, Nobel Prize, Brain, Nutrition, Health, Chocolate, UK Lifestyle, UK News
Aidan Goggins

Chocolate may make the heart grow fonder, but does it make the brain grow larger? This week a New England Journal of Medicine article investigated whether a correlation existed between a countries per capita chocolate consumption (mostly measured through Lindt® dark chocolate consumption) and their cumulative amount of Nobel Prize winners.

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And the Mo Ibrahim Award For Excellence In African Leadership Goes To...

The Huffington Post UK | Chris York | Posted 15.10.2012 | UK
Read More: Leadership, Nobel Prize, Mo Ibrahim, UK News, Mo Ibrahim Prize, Leadership Awards, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Africa, UK News

The annual £3.2 million Mo Ibrahim award for 'excellence in African leadership' has failed to find a winner for the third time in six years. The a...

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Do Speak: Nobels and Other Literary Prizes

B.J. Epstein | Posted 12.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Nobel Prize, Literary Prizes, Mo Yan, Literature, UK Books, International Writers, Nobel Literary Prize, Home News
B.J. Epstein

This week, Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature. The reaction of much of the world was: "Who?"

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The Nobel Peace Prize Committee Likes to Stir Up Trouble, but the EU has Done Well

Denis MacShane | Posted 12.12.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Nobel Peace Prize Eu, Twitter, Norway, Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize, Europhobes, European Union, Nobel Prize, UK Politics News
Denis MacShane

To read the torrent of abuse pouring on the heads of the worthy Norwegians who judge the EU to be a force for peace in the world is quite hilarious but sadly monochrome on Twitter. Like the best of Colonel Blimps they splutter with purple rage and fury at the thought of their hated, loathed EU being lauded this way.

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Jessica Elgot

Delight In China As Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize..

HuffingtonPost.com | Jessica Elgot | Posted 11.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Nobel Prize, UK News, Chinese Culture, Chinese Communist Party, Nobel Prize Literature, Chinese Government, China Censorship, Mo-Yan-Nobel-Prize, Chinese Literature, China, Mo Yan, Home News

Mo Yan was congratulated for his Nobel Literature Prize win by prominent authors in his home country - but some on social networking sites criticised ...

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Mo Yan Becomes First Chinese Winner Of Nobel Prize For Literature

The Huffington Post UK | Sam Parker | Posted 11.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Haruki Murakami, Literature, Doris Lessing, Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize, Swedish Academy, Books, Video, Home News

Mo Yan has been named the first Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The judges praised the author's "hallucinatory realism" that "mer...

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Nobel Prize-Winner Reveals What Has Caused Extreme Global Weather

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 20.08.2012 | UK
Read More: Greenland, Climate Change, Nobel Prize, UK News, UK Environment, Global Warming, UK Economy, UK News

It’s highly likely that recent extreme weather events around the world were the result of man-made global warming, according to Nobel Prize-winning ...

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Gabriel García Márquez Suffering From Dementia And Forced To Quit Writing

The Huffington Post UK | Brogan Driscoll | Posted 08.07.2012 | Home
Read More: UK Books, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dementia, Nobel Prize, Mental Health, UK Culture, Nobel Prize for Literature, Home News

Legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has been forced to stop writing as he is suffering with dementia. His brother, Jaime, revealed ...

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Mamma Mia! Italian University Has 'No Other Choice' But To Switch To English

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 16.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Nobel Prize, Italian, UK News, UK World, QS Rankings, Italy, Europe, UK Culture, World News, Universities, English Language, UK Universities & Education News

A leading Italian university is switching to the English language, saying it was left with "no other choice" in order to be able to compete internatio...

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Super-material Graphene's Amazing New Power

PA | Melanie Hick | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Science, UK Tech, Nobel Prize, Graphene, UK News, UK Technology News, UK Tech News

A mysterious new property of graphene has been discovered by one of the British Nobel Prize-winning scientists who first created the "wonder material"...

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On Nobel Prizes, and why Girls Should eat Cake in History Lessons

Hannah Wallis | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Science, Single-Sex Schools, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Nobel Prize, Education, Women, UK Students, UK Universities and Education, UK Schools, UK Universities & Education News
Hannah Wallis

It was with fascination that I listened to Radio 4's profile last week of Jocelyn Bell Burnell - the scientist whose claim to fame is being passed over for the Nobel Prize for physics, despite being the person who discovered pulsars. Rather, it was awarded to her male colleague instead.

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British Knight wins Education 'Nobel'

Joe Dyke | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Fazle Abed, Qatar, Wise, Brac, Education, World Innovation Summit, Nobel Prize, UK News
Joe Dyke

British philanthropist Sir Fazle Abed has won the largest ever prize for education, dubbed the "Nobel prize for education." British-Bangladeshi Abed w...

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Nobel Physics Prize Goes To Project About Entire Universe

Melanie Hick | Posted 04.12.2011 | UK Tech
Read More: UK Tech, Nobel Prize, Astronomy, Technology, UK Technology News, Space, Physics, UK Tech News

The 2011 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to a project that looks at the biggest subject imaginable - the entire universe. One half of the ...

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The Nobel Prize for "nutty" Physics

Michael Brooks | Posted 04.12.2011 | UK Tech
Read More: Science, Nobel Prizes, Adam Riess, UK Tech, Dark Energy, Nobel Prize, UK Science, UK Tech News
Michael Brooks

We don't yet know what dark energy is, or where it comes from. We can't tax it, we can't use it to bolster economic growth and it is not going to solve rising fuel prices or alleviate climate change. But sometimes knowledge is its own reward. Even if it is nutty-sounding.

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