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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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The winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize awarded by the Central Bank of Sweden are three American economists working on the impact of social organization on the wealth of nations. The awardees are Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. Why are some countries unexpectedly successful and others unexpectedly unsuccessful? Why is it that countries with such rich cultures as India and Mexico have consistently struggled economically, while Australia or Canada have been successful?

Commentary on Nobel Prize in chemistry

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded half to David Baker ‘for the design of proteins using computational techniques’ and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper ‘for the prediction of protein structure’.

The first Nobel Prize in computer science!

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On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to American physicist John Joseph Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist Geoffrey Everest Hinton. Although the prize was awarded in physics, the justification reads that it was based on ‘discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning through artificial neural networks’, which is clearly associated with computer science.

Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2024

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When it seemed that all functions of ribonucleic acids (RNA) had been studied and described, scientists discovered new types of RNA at the end of the 20th century that influence inheritance, development, and diseases. This year, the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of one of these new RNAs. According to the Nobel Committee's decision, two American biologists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, received the award in Physiology and Medicine for their "discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation".

In search of a lost hour

Fri, 03/23/2018 - 20:12

On Sunday night, we will move the clock forward from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. and thus, lose an hour of sleep. We owe the change George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand astronomer. He observed that switching the clock between winter and summer time enable to better use daylight time.

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Einstein was right again

Fri, 03/02/2018 - 12:57

mgr inż. Michał Maciejewski

Gravitational waves are another tool for space exploration, especially of phenomena related to large-scale objects. It may well be, as Barry Barish suggests in the CERN Courier, that they will help us better understand how the universe began or the Big Bang theory

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On collecting stamps

Mon, 12/11/2017 - 09:09

mgr inż. Michał Maciejewski

'All the science is either physics or stamp collecting'. These rather controversial statement is attributed to Ernest Rutherford. A New Zealander, 1908 Nobel Prize laureate for his studies on radioactive decay, he is by many considered to be the father of nuclear physics. Doubtless, someone who made an enormous contribution to the advancement of science.

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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

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The first Nobel Prize in computer science!

Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2024

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In search of a lost hour

Einstein was right again

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