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A Nobel prize in Economic Sciences 2024 for an explanation of why nations fail

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to Daron AcemogluMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge, USA Simon JohnsonMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cambridge, USA James A. RobinsonUniversity of Chicago, IL, USA The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has recently announced the recipients of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of … Continue reading A Nobel prize in Economic Sciences 2024 for an explanation of why nations fail

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Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo

Announcement – The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used … Continue reading Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo

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The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutethas today decided to awardthe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinejointly toVictor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation This year’s Nobel Prize honors two scientists for their discovery of a fundamentalprinciple governing how gene activity is regulated. The information stored within our chromosomes can be likened to an instruction manual for all cells in our body. Every cell contains the same chromosomes, so every cell contains exactly the same set of … Continue reading The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutethas today decided to awardthe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinejointly toVictor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun