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Dead Scientist Accidentally Wins The Nobel Prize

1:26AM October 4, 2011 | Casey Chan

Ralph Steinman, a 68-year-old Canadian scientist, was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries regarding our immune system. Huge honour! Bigger celebration! Not exactly. Steinman passed away due to pancreatic cancer three days ago. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet had no idea and now might take his award away. More »


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China Blocks Web Searches For Nobel Winner

7:44AM October 9, 2010 | Maureen OConnor

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, and China’s censorship machine is already cracking down: Search results for “Nobel Peace Prize” or “Liu Xiaobo” have been banned for those within the Great Firewall of China. More »


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Graphene Just Won Two Guys The Nobel. So What The Hell Is It?

6:20AM October 6, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Today, two professors won the Nobel prize for physics “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. The Nobel is the Olympic gold of science. But what is graphene, and why did it earn these guys over a million bucks? More »


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A Brief History of Williard Boyle and George Smith

10:40AM October 13, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Williard “Mr. Modesty” Boyle and George “Three Page Dissertation” Smith, extraordinary sailors and co-winners of this year’s Nobel prize in physics deserve time in our spotlight: they invented the CCD image sensors which gave our digital cameras eyes. More »