4 h. ago Hong Kong’s John Lee champions Shaw Prize vision, pays tribute to late physicist

Hong Kong’s leader has said late entertainment mogul Run Run Shaw’s vision of celebrating education and the pursuit of knowledge with his prestigious science prize is central to the city government’s own aspirations. Speaking at the award ceremony for the prestigious Shaw Prize on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also paid his respects to late Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, who was one of the local award’s founding council members. The award, dubbed the “Nobel...

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3 d. ago Chen Ning Yang: Chinese Nobel prize winning physicist dies aged 103

Chen Ning Yang: Chinese Nobel prize winning physicist dies aged 103  BBC

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6 d. ago The Nobel Peace Prize should now be called the Nobel war prize

Donald Trump is reportedly furious that he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, it went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. But if the US president could see beyond his megalomania for a moment, he would realise that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has bent over backwards to placate his administration. The far-right Machado, after all, was nominated by Trump’s own Secretary of State Marco Rubio when he was still a senator, and former national security adviser and now US...

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7 d. ago Venezuela’s Nobel laureate urges Maduro to cede power peacefully

Nicolas Maduro’s time is up but he can still leave power peacefully, Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said in an interview from hiding on Monday. Offering a barbed olive branch to Venezuela’s long-lasting leader, 58-year-old Machado said President Maduro could get personal guarantees if he were to cede power. “Maduro currently has the opportunity to move toward a peaceful transition,” the opposition figurehead told Agence France-Presse as a flotilla of US warships...

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7 d. ago Venezuela closes Norway embassy after opposition leader Machado awarded Nobel

Venezuela said on Monday it had closed its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the Venezuelan government, which has not commented on Machado’s prize, said that the closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service. Caracas also closed its embassy in Australia while opening diplomatic outposts in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, countries it considers “strategic partners in the fight” against “hegemonic...

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7 d. ago Venezuela closes embassy in Norway after Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela said on Monday it had closed its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the Venezuelan government, which has not commented on Machado’s prize, said that the closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service. Caracas also closed its embassy in Australia while opening diplomatic outposts in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, countries it considers “strategic partners in the fight” against “hegemonic...

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8 d. ago Trio wins economics Nobel for innovation and creative destruction

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics on Monday for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth” including the key principle of creative destruction. The winners represent contrasting but complementary approaches to economics. Mokyr is an economic historian who delved into long-term trends using historical sources, while Howitt and Aghion relied on mathematics to explain how creative destruction works. Dutch-born Mokyr, 79, is from...

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8 d. ago Nobel economics prize goes to three researchers for work explaining tech and innovation

Nobel economics prize goes to three researchers for work explaining tech and innovation-driven growth – business live  The Guardian

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1 week ago Trump’s quest for the Nobel Peace Prize falls short, at least this time

US President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and - most vocally - himself. Opposition activist Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela was awarded the prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honouring her “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”. Trump, who has...

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1 week ago Venezuela’s Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize as Trump Gaza deal falls short

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who currently lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, in a move the White House criticised as a snub to US President Donald Trump. “President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,” White House spokesperson Steven Cheung...

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1 week ago How Japan’s twin Nobel Prize wins cast spotlight on its growing brain drain

Japan’s scientific community is celebrating two Nobel wins this week, but the accolades have also reignited concern over the country’s ability to retain its top researchers amid growing competition from overseas. The wins have renewed scrutiny of the country’s research system, with observers citing poor funding, job insecurity and rigid institutions as factors driving talent abroad – particularly to China. On Monday, the Nobel Assembly announced that Shimon Sakaguchi and two American colleagues...

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1 week ago Hungary’s Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. “Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess,” the Academy said in a statement. “But there are more strings to his bow, and he also...

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1 week ago ‘I only care about Thailand’: PM snubs Trump’s Cambodia border mediation

Donald Trump has urged Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to pursue a peaceful resolution to the country’s simmering border conflict with Cambodia, as the US president looked to bolster his credentials for a Nobel Peace Prize. Trump’s push for a Thai-Cambodian peace deal was made in a letter to the Thai prime minister on Wednesday, coming just days before his planned trip to the region to attend a summit of leaders from Asean in Malaysia later this month. Trump’s intervention earlier this...

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1 week ago Trio win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for new form of molecular architecture

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks that dates back to 1989. The Nobel Committee said that the three laureates “developed a new form of molecular architecture.” “They have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow,” the committee said. Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,...

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2 w. ago Taiwanese President: Trump deserves Nobel prize if he stops China using force

Taiwanese President: Trump deserves Nobel prize if he stops China using force  Baird Maritime

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2 w. ago Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Clarke, Devoret and Martins

The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics are John Clarke, Michael Devoret, and John Martins for their discoveries in quantum mechanics. The award, announced in Sweden’s capital Stockholm, is the second Nobel of the season, after the Medicine Prize was awarded on Monday to a US-Japanese trio for research into the human immune system. The Nobel Prizes were established by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel (1833–1896). In his will, Nobel stipulated that the prizes should...

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2 w. ago Quantum leap: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for groundbreaking discovery

Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said. The trio was honoured “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit,” the jury said. Quantum mechanics describes how differently things work on incredibly small scales. For example, when a normal ball hits a wall, it bounces back. But on the quantum scale, a...

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2 w. ago If Trump persuades China to abandon force against Taiwan, he deserves Nobel prize, Taiwan president says

If Trump persuades China to abandon force against Taiwan, he deserves Nobel prize, Taiwan president says  NBC News

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2 w. ago Taiwan president says Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize if he convinces China not to attack

Taiwan president says Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize if he convinces China not to attack  Yahoo News New Zealand

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2 w. ago Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize if stops China’s invasion, says Taiwan president

Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize if stops China’s invasion, says Taiwan president  The Independent

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