Is there a link between income inquality and kissing? And why do alligators make such loud bellows around mating season? Feedback reports from the Ig Nobel prize Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2254902-the-weird-and-wacky-science-that-won-ig-nobel-prizes-this-year/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields
Scientists in just five research fields – including neuroscience and atomic physics – scooped up more than half of the Nobel prizes awarded for science in recent decades Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250012-half-of-nobel-prizes-in-science-go-to-just-five-research-fields/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Why Don’t More Women Win Nobels in Science?
Here’s a look at why more women don’t win more Nobel Prizes in science, an issue that involves women’s exclusion from education and careers in science. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-women-nobel-science-prizes-are-rare.html
2019’s ‘Ig Nobel’ Prizes Honor Strange, Unusual, and Hilarious Research
CNN reports: Pizza might protect against cancer, why wombats poop in cubes and a diaper changing machine that can be used on human babies — these are just some of the research and inventions awarded at this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes, a spoof of the actual Nobel Prize awards. The Ig Nobels are “intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative…
Quantum uncertainty helps solve an old problem
Controlling how electrons zip through a material is of central importance to build novel electronic devices. How the electronic motion is affected by magnetic fields is an old problem that has not been fully resolved, yet has already led to multiple physics Nobel prizes. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg have…
Capturing single photons to explore fundamental physics and quantum information science
Quantum optics, where light and matter interactions are examined at the microscopic level, has earned Nobel prizes—including three awarded since 2001—for some of science’s biggest names. However, even in this mature field, some interesting physics remains largely unexplored. An international team of scientists from Technische Universität Wien (Austria), Duke University, Università degli Studi di Palermo and Istituto Nanoscienze CNR (Italy), and…
David Thouless, 84, Dies; Nobel Laureate Cast Light on Matter
Using math to explain strange states of matter, like superconductivity, he had a “transformational” impact on physics, with real-world applications. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/obituaries/david-thouless-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Paul Greengard, Nobel Prize-Winning Neuroscientist, Dies at 93
His 15-year quest to understand how brain cells communicate provided the underlying science for many antipsychotic drugs. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/obituaries/paul-greengard-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…