Nobel Prizes

The competition for the preeminence in science between China and the USA, in preparation for the 2024 US presidential elections. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Is the US about to lose its scientific preeminence?

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A study published in Nature reveals that the US continues to lead in areas such as biomedical research, but China's continued investment in materials science, engineering and physical sciences poses a significant challenge to US dominance.
Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, two of the main researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Artificial intelligence plays a major role in two categories of the 2024 Nobel Prizes. This is a sign of things to come

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It is likely that we will see more Nobel medals awarded to researchers who used AI tools. As this happens, we may find that the scientific methods honored by those Nobel Prize committees will move away from the simple categories of "physics," "chemistry," and "physiology."
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to a researcher at the University of Washington and two Google Deep Mind employees

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David Baker from the University of Washington and researchers Demis Hasevis and John Jumper from Google's DeepMind company won the prize for designing artificial proteins and predicting protein structure with the help of a computer
2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winners John Joseph Hadfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for researchers on the development of artificial neural networks (extension)

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John Hadfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the prize for their pioneering research in machine learning using neural networks inspired by the structure of the brain
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The developers of the deep learning technologies using neural networks won the Nobel Prize

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The two, John Hopfield from Princeton University and Prof. Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto changed the way machine learning is done for artificial intelligence and promoted the technology becoming as powerful as we know it today
The mechanism of the flow of genetic information from the DNA molecule to microRNA molecules and from there to proteins. The identical genetic information is stored in the DNA of all cells in our body. This situation requires precise regulation of gene activity so that only the correct set of genes is active in each type of cell. Courtesy of the Nobel Prize Committee

Gary Rubcon and Victor Ambrose won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its effect on gene regulation (extension)

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The two scientists were recognized for their contribution to the understanding of genetic regulatory mechanisms through the discovery of microRNAs - tiny RNA molecules that play an essential role in the processes of development and function in cells
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The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambrose and Gary Rubcon, for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

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Who will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year? All predictions

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The Nobel Prizes are announced at the beginning of October every year, and about a month before that rumors, predictions and speculations are spread about the identity of the candidates and the chances of winning. In recent years, using innovative data analysis tools, forecasting experts
Figure 3. Pabo's discoveries provided important information regarding the population of the world at the time Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and spread to the rest of the world. Neanderthals lived in western Eurasia while Denisovans lived in eastern Eurasia. Breeding between the different species occurred when the Homo sapiens spread across the continent, leaving behind treasured remains in DNA. Illustration from the explanation for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize for Medicine to the Swede Svante Pavo, the discoverer of the Denisovan man and the decipherer of the genome of extinct human species

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Santa Febo is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist, one of the founding fathers of the field of paleogenetics, leader of the international project to map the Neanderthal human genome, and co-discoverer of Denisovan man
Graph using data from Angrist and Kruger (1991). People with 12 years of education have 12 percent higher incomes than people with 11 years of education. People with 16 years of education have a 65% higher income compared to people with 11 years of education. Source: Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel laureates, including the Israeli Joshua Angrist, were able to prove the causal relationship between apparently unrelated events

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Prof. Ingrist Natural experiments help answer important questions for society. For example: people born in the fourth quarter of the school year have more years of education and higher income
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Spin-glass: the quantum physics behind the discovery that won Frisee the Nobel

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The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this year to Giorgio LaFerrisi for his scientific contribution in understanding complex systems alongside climate researchers. The prize committee decided to focus on the solution he proposed to the spin-glass problem on the grounds that this model is able to explain phenomena
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The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed catalysts for drug discovery

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2021 was awarded to two researchers: Benjamin List (Benjamin List) and David MacMillan (David WC MacMillan) for "the development of asymmetric organocatalysis". (the news will be updated)
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"Nobel winners Manaba and Hasselman brought enormous benefit to humanity by providing a solid physical basis for our understanding of climate"

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An accessible explanation of the science behind the Nobel Prize in Physics won by Syukuro Manaba from Princeton University and Klaus Hasselmann from the Max Planck Institute who perfected the climate models as published on the Nobel Prize website. Translation: Dr
From right to left: Reot Yanon Berman- Executive Director of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Dan Shechtman- Chairman of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Giorgio Parizzi, Rector Antonella Polimani, Dror Idar- Ambassador of Israel in Italy

Nobel followed Wolf again in the same year: and this time Prof. Giorgio Frisi

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The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded today to Prof. Giorgio Parisi is just a small number of the names of Nobel Prize winners over the years, who previously won the prestigious Wolf Prize, of the Wolf Foundation.
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The climate crisis reaches the Nobel Prize in Physics: two of the developers of the climate models and a researcher of complexity won the Nobel 2021

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Half of the prize was awarded to Syokuro Manaba from Princeton University and Klaus Hasselman, the Max Planck Institute, who perfected the climate models, and the Italian Giorgio Frisi, who deals with the transition between simple and complex systems * Frisi said at the announcement event:
Illustration on behalf of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, describing the discovery of the 2021 prize winners. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Matthias Karlén

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the discoverers of temperature and touch receptors in the skin

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David Julius and Erdem Patapotian (born in Beirut, Lebanon) discovered the receptors TRPV1, TRPM8 made it possible to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate nerve impulses that allow us to sense and adapt to the world around us
In the photo: Professor Hershko (from the left) and Professor Chakhanover. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Professors Avraham Hershko and Aharon Chachanover, Nobel laureates from the Technion, were elected to the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research

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quasi-crystals. From Wikipedia

From Quasi-Crystals to the Nobel Prize / Louisa Meshi and Adin Stern

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Marie Curie in a photograph from 1898. From Wikipedia

Marie Curie - the story of the only woman who won two Nobel Prizes

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expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

The cosmological constant: Einstein's fatal mistake that led to the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Figure 1. Daniel Shechtman's interference pattern had an axis of symmetry of order 10: rotating the image by a tenth of a complete circle (36 degrees) led to obtaining the same pattern.

Crystals with golden ratios - the full text

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Prof. Aharon Chachanover

Who is for life and who is for death

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Prof. Aharon Chachanover

The University of Haifa will award an honorary doctorate to Prof. Aharon Chakhanover

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ribosome: the key to life at the atomic level part XNUMX

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Ada Yonat's work made it possible to decipher and understand the mechanism of action of five antibiotic drugs

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The ribosome breaker

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Investigation in Sweden: Did the Chinese government and a pharmaceutical company influence the decision regarding Nobel Prize winners

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the way genetic information is copied

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