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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, Indian thinker Amartya Sen prefers to hold back on economic discussions. According to him, the topic already receives too much attention—”practically all the time”—and there are more important issues, such as freedom and people. In an interview with Sheet, Sen claims …

posted on 10/15/2022 06:00 (credit: Personal archive) The poster in the hand of Ukrainian human rights activist Oleksandra Vyacheslavna Matviichuk, 39, bears an old slogan used by Soviet dissidents that she turned into a struggle: “For ours and yours.” A leader of the Kiev-based non-governmental organization Center for Civil Liberties …

Vladimir Putin turned 70 this Friday (7) with a gift from the Norwegian Nobel Committee. By anointing forces opposed to the Kremlin regime with the prestigious Peace Laureate, organizers have symbolically sealed the Russian president as the pet pariah of the West. Not that Putin cares, on the contrary: it’s …

posted on 10/05/2022 06:00 (credit: AFP) They took quantum mechanics out of the purely theoretical field, pointing out ways in which this strange subatomic world is revolutionizing technology. Thanks to research by Frenchman Alain Aspect, 75, American John Clauser, 79, and Austrian Anton Zeilinger, 77, supercomputers with unparalleled speeds, ultra-precise …

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharples, for developing an ingenious tool for building molecules. Scientists are responsible for studies on so-called “click” chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry. It is the second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Barry Sharples, who had received another …

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three laureates: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. The tribute was made because of his research in quantum physics. The studies developed by the three researchers involved experiments with entangled photons. The result opens up new avenues for technologies that …

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three laureates: Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger. The tribute was made because of his research in quantum physics. The studies developed by the three researchers involved experiments with entangled photons. The result opens up new avenues for technologies that …

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo, 67, laureate for unraveling the genomes of extinct hominins, that is, missing members of the primate group to which humans belong. Among other accomplishments, in 2010 he coordinated work that sequenced (“spelled”) the complete DNA of …

+ Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, a Russian journalist auctioned the prize for US$ 103.5 million (equivalent to about R$ 535 million), to raise funds for children refugees by the war in Ukraine. Dmitry Muratov sold the gold medal to an as yet unidentified author. Dmitry Muratov …