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Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman taught us to make better money decisions
My grandmother, Big Mama, was masterful at making financial decisions. She didn’t let emotion dictate her behavior.I once asked why we had only a washing machine and no dryer.“That’s why God created sunlight,” she said.My grandmother taught me that money is often not about math. She understood that you have to fight instincts that can …
Local Nobel Prize Winner Hopes COVID Vaccine RNA Technology Can Fight Other Diseases – CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) — Many experts have hailed the fast development of COVID-19 vaccines as a miracle of modern medicine. The science behind it could pave the way to revolutionary treatments for a number of crippling diseases. Less than a year after the coronavirus changed the way we live people are now being immunized with proven …
Nobel Prize CRISPR gene editing technology used
CLOSE Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their pioneering work on the gene-editing tool CRISPR. The tool has been used to engineer better crops and to try to cure human diseases. (Oct. 7) AP Domestic Coronavirus tests performed in labs are the gold standard for accuracy, and antigen …
Two women share chemistry Nobel in historic win for ‘genetic scissors’
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and Jennifer Doudna began a formidable partnership in 2011 Two scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the tools to edit DNA. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are the first two women to share the prize, which honours their work on …
CRISPR researchers, awarded the Nobel Prize, say the technology could defeat coronavirus
Earlier this week, the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to a pair of scientists who discovered a genetic technology that can alter DNA — and, perhaps, help researchers treat COVID-19 and other future diseases. The scientists who discovered this technology, known as the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors (or CRISPR for short — clusters of …
Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The award was announced at a news conference in Stockholm. Glück, who was born in New York in 1943, has written numerous poetry collections, …
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work on Black Holes
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded three astrophysicists Tuesday for work that was literally out of the world, and indeed the universe. They are Roger Penrose, an Englishman, Reinhard Genzel, a German, and Andrea Ghez, an American. They were recognized for their work on the gateways to eternity known as black holes, massive objects …
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for black hole discoveries to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
Göran K. Hansson, secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said at Tuesday’s ceremony in Stockholm that this year’s prize was about “the darkest secrets of universe.” Penrose, a professor at the University of Oxford who worked with Stephen Hawking, was awarded half of the prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is …
Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Hepatitis C discovery
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The announcement was made at a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden Three scientists who discovered the virus Hepatitis C have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. The winners are British scientist Michael Houghton and US researchers Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. The …
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday for the discovery of hepatitis C virus, a breakthrough the Nobel Assembly said had “made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.” The Nobel Assembly announced the prize …
