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Two researchers whose work has led to the AI revolution won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics. A materials physicist explains statistical mechanics, the physics field behind their discoveries.
The Nobel Prize shows that the field of artificial neural networks – and the deep learning AI revolution the technology unleashed – owe as much to physics as biology and computer science.
All the oxygen in your body is thanks to magic numbers of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNAs, molecules that turn genes on and off – and cause disease when they go awry.
Alfred Nobel established the Nobel prizes in 1901 – but he had a difficult journey to fame and fortune
Only 5 women have ever won a Nobel Prize in physics. The field as a whole has issues with gender diversity, but as a woman physicist explains, success is possible for women in the field.
Challenging oppression, advocating for justice, and inspiring social change are the hallmarks of Soyinka’s life.
Winning a Nobel Prize is a rare achievement, but some researchers have been awarded more than one.
Songwriting, theatre, rap and graphic novels have won literary awards, but video games remain an overlooked part of the wider literary canon.
Remembering his immense contributions to psychology and economics.
Former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has died, aged 100. His legacy, including his involvement in the Vietnam war, is long, complicated and divisive.
Studies reveal women’s research receives tougher assessment, less funding, fewer prizes and less citation than men’s.
Louis Brus explains some of the foundational research – and how even the letter carrier wants to shake your hand when you’ve just won a Nobel Prize.
Louis Brus, one of the newest Nobel laureates in chemistry, speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The goal of mRNA technology is to harness the power of the cell to potentially prevent infections and treat diseases.
Japanese and English readers have read Murakami in quite different contexts and chronologies.
Goldin is showing the world that economics is about more than just finance.
Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in Evin, Iran’s most notorious prison for political detainees.
The prize has gone to a Norwegian playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society.
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