Nobel winner dies before receiving prize
Ralph Steinman, who passed away Friday, will still receive his share of the award because the Nobel committee did not know of his death. He and two others are honored for their work with the immune...
View ArticleProfessors at Berkeley and Stanford share Nobel Prize for medicine
Professors of molecular and cellular biology at UC Berkeley and Stanford University are sharing the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in unraveling the mystery of a key cellular...
View ArticleUSC's Nobel Prize-winning chemist credits curiosity, simplicity
USC chemistry professor Arieh Warshel can thank curiosity and weak computers for the Nobel prize in chemistry he won Wednesday.
View ArticleWhere were you when JFK was killed? It's in your hippocampus.
Researchers have lifted the veil on the brain cells that could explain why so many people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 50 years ago.
View ArticleTake a bow: 'Science' crowned word of the year by Merriam-Webster
Move over, "selfie." The Oxford English Dictionary may have let you into the official word club, but you’re still a lexical dilettante. The king of searched words this year, according to...
View ArticleCognitive computer chip apes brain architecture
Computer science is getting stunningly close to granting the wish of the Scarecrow, not to mention the needs of the modern soldier.
View ArticleIg Nobel Prize winners stop bleeding with pork, make sausage from poop
Would you eat sausage made with bacteria from dirty diapers? Do you fear your cat is making you depressed? Did the “Grilled Cheesus” episode of “Glee” make you wonder whether Finn had lost his marbles?
View ArticleNobel prize brain spatial maps
John O'Keefe, who will share this year's prize in physiology or medicine with a husband-and-wife team of Norwegian neuroscientists, was key in discovering the specialized cells in the brain that encode...
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