Nobel prize
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Industry & Research
Nobel winner: Optical astronomy’s “existential crisis”
One of the nation’s leading scientists, Nobel prizewinner Brian Schmidt, has warned that his field of optical astronomy faces extinction…
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News
Bell to become ANU’s first woman VC
Techno-anthropologist Genevieve Bell AO will be the first woman to lead the Australian National University, taking over from Nobel prizewinner…
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Commentary
‘Freudianism and its discontents’ vs efforts inspired by love in overcoming the COVID-19 scourge
Gentle reader: During the past 24 hours while you slept you dreamt. You may not recall your dream but you…
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News
Nobel laureate stripped of honours after ‘reprehensible’ statements
In 2007 James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered the structure of DNA, said that black people are genetically inferior. In an…
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News
The third-ever female Nobel Prize-winning physicist doesn’t want your gender pity
Chances are, either you or someone you know has had laser eye surgery. If it weren't for Canadian Nobel Prize…
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International Education
Sweet taste of Nobel success
The more chocolate that a country’s citizens eat, the more Nobel prize winners they produce, says an article published in…
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