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☆ Nobel economics prize goes to global inequality researchers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their research into why global inequality persists, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship. The laureates have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for achieving this,” said Jakob Svensson, Chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences. Last year, Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the prize for her work highlighting the causes of wage and labour market inequality between men and women. In 2019, economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the award for work on fighting poverty. The economics prize has been dominated by U.S. academics since its inception, while U.S.-based researchers also tend to account for a large portion of winners in the scientific fields for which 2024 laureates were announced last week.

Persons: Simon Johnson, James Robinson, Daron Acemoglu, ”, Jakob Svensson, Alfred Nobel, Acemoglu, ” Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, Milton Friedman, John Nash —, Russell Crowe, Ben Bernanke, Claudia Goldin, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Japan’s Nihon Organizations: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Economic Sciences, Bank, Sveriges, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Technology, Federal, Research, Harvard, U.S Locations: U.S, Hiroshima, Nagasaki

☆ New 3D scan resurrects a legendary sunken Antarctic expedition ship
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Crews encountered obstacles that entrapped ships or submerged them beneath ice-covered waters, creating an enduring mystique about what went wrong. Ocean secretsThe 3D scan of HMS Endurance makes it appear as though the ship was lifted from the bottom of the ocean. Falklands Heritage Maritime Trust/National GeographicAn awe-inspiring 3D scan has brought the shipwreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, found in 2022, back to life. Meanwhile, a more somber finding gleaned from DNA identified the cannibalized remains of James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus. Other worldsAstronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope watched the shape of Jupiter's Great Red Spot change over 90 days.

Persons: Crews, Ernest Shackleton’s HMS, Shackleton, James Fitzjames, Sir John Franklin, Fitzjames, Trailblazers, David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Matthew Dominick, John Henry Patterson, Thomas Gnoske, Joseph DePasquale, —, Indiana Jones, ”, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, Heritage Maritime Trust, University of Washington, Google, Princeton University, University of Toronto, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard Medical School, NASA, International Space, Space, Chicago’s Field, Hubble, European Space Agency, CNN Space, Science Locations: Antarctica, Weddell, Canada’s Nunavut, London, North America, Europe, Kenya, Civil, Petra, Jordan

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm. Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. On Wednesday, three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

Persons: Han Kang, ” Mats Malm, International Booker, Annie Ernaux of, Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton —, Alfred Nobel Organizations: International, North Locations: Korean, Swedish, Stockholm ., Annie Ernaux of France

Two American scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for their groundbreaking work on how genes behave. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, which the Nobel Assembly describes as "a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated." The tiny microRNA molecules play a crucial role in determining how different cells — which have the same chromosomes, essentially their instruction manual — have different characteristics. "The answer lies in gene regulation, which allows each cell to select only the relevant instructions," the Nobel announcement said. But subsequent work, including the discovery of another microRNA in 2000, proved that there are more than a thousand genes for different microRNAs in humans.

Persons: Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Ruvkin, Silverman, Worcester , Massachusetts Ruvkun Organizations: Medicine, Nobel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Natural Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School Locations: Hanover , New Hampshire, Worcester , Massachusetts, Berkeley , California

☆ Nobel Prize in medicine 2024 awarded for work on the discovery of microRNA to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Christian Edwards | Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. Their research revealed how genes give rise to different cells within the human body, a process known as gene regulation. The Nobel Prize committee announced the prestigious honor, seen as the pinnacle of scientific achievement, in Sweden on Monday. Ruvkun conducted his research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year's laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum during the announcement of the Nobel Prize in medicine winners on Monday.

Persons: Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun, Ambros, ’, “, Ruvkun, General Thomas Perlmann, Gary Ruvkum, Jonathan Nackstrand, ”, Olle Kämpe, David Pendlebury, ” Pendlebury, Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman Organizations: CNN, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Getty, Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific Locations: Sweden, Massachusetts, AFP, Covid

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