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• Research into HIV, cancer garners Nobel Prize
... of HPV-induced carcinogenesis and the development of prophylactic vaccines against HPV acquisition," the citation said. Alfred Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, established the prizes in his will in the categories of medicine, physics ...
• Nobel predictions center on rights activists
The annual guessing game is in full swing as the prize committees prepare for their final meetings to single out achievements in science, economics, peace and literature for the $1.3 million awards. While the selections for medicine, physics ...
• Ig Nobel winners inspired by fleas, Coca-Cola
PHYSICS: Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith for proving that heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle. CHEMISTRY: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh ...
• Why head-first slides in baseball are faster
... styles — head-first and feet-first — which is faster? Head-first, says David A. Peters of Washington University in St. Louis, an engineer and avid baseball fan. The reasons that it's faster to lead off with your noggin all have to do with physics ...
• CERN computer grid links 7,000 scientists
GENEVA - CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the world to crunch data on its huge experiments. Some 7,000 scientists ...