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He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature (wired.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jorge Garay | tags: ai biodesign, david baker, nobel prize

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Why the super-fun Ig Nobel prizes bring serious value to science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-09 | get This Is Improbable Marc Abrahams book → | tags: ig nobel prizes, marc abrahams, tokuji unno

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Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026 (wired.com)

2026-09-08 | by Jorge Garay | get This Is Improbable Marc Abrahams book → | tags: ig nobel prizes, improbable research, zurich

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Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-05 | get This Is Improbable Too Marc Abrahams book → | tags: ig nobel prize, mosquito proboscis, urinal design

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Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-04 | by Ferry | get molecular model kit biochemistry protein structure → | tags: ribosome, x-ray crystallography, ada yonath

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Meet the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners (arstechnica.com)

2026-09-03 | get Ig Nobel Prizes book Marc Abrahams → | tags: ig nobel prizes, mosquito proboscis, splash-free urinal

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Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-03 | by Simms | get Ig Nobel Prizes book Marc Abrahams → | tags: nobel prize, ig nobel, land use

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Rudolph A. Marcus obituary: theoretical chemist who explained how electrons jump between molecules (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | by Chan | tags: marcus theory, electron transfer, molécule

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Nobel Disease (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: nobel prize, paul nurse, physiology

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Russia-Linked 'Midnight Blizzard' Group Hijacks Hotel Wi-Fi With CaptiveCrunch (slashdot.org)

2026-08-04 | tags: midnight blizzard, captive crunch, svr

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Google Shuts Down Its Nobel-Prize Winning AlphaFold Project (slashdot.org)

2026-07-29 | tags: alphafold, deepmind, protein folding

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Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | by Mariella Moon | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein folding

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Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini (engadget.com)

2026-07-29 | by Mariella Moon | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein folding

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Obituary: Susumu Tonegawa, Japan’s first Nobel prizewinner in physiology or medicine (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Hayday | tags: susumu tonegawa, nobel prize, immunology

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Sixteen Nobel-Winning Economists Warn That Major AI Job Losses Are Coming (futurism.com)

2026-07-15 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: jobs, letter, nobel

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China, Russia and Others Seek To Inflame Debate Over AI Data Centers (slashdot.org)

2026-07-13 | tags: continue, continue policy, giving

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Nobel-Winning US Chemist Will Move to China to Lead AI Institute (slashdot.org)

2026-07-10 | tags: dr yaghi, materials, tsinghua

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Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-08 | by Ahart | get AI Materials Science Kit → | tags: china, materials, nobel

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Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | tags: max planck, naturwissenschaften, retraction

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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-20 | by Anthony Ha | get DeepMind Research Notebook → | tags: nobel prize, alphafold, deepmind

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Feynmann's solved ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-01 | by Castelvecchi | get Game Theory Strategy Board → | tags: feynman, nobel prize, restaurant dilemma

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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get AI Writing Assistant Tool → | tags: olga tokarczuk, ai writing, lit hub

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The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-12 | by Thomas Macaulay | get AI Ethics and Safety Book → | tags: openai, ai exploits, anthropic

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Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-11 | by James O'Donnell | get AI Ethics and Safety Book → | tags: ai agents, acemoglu, openai

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25 years of chemistry that simply clicks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Davis | get Molecular Model Kit → | tags: click chemistry, sharpless, nobel prize

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Amazon bets Nobel Prize-based dehumidification can cut its energy use (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-05 | by Tim De Chant | get Nobel Prize Dehumidifier → | tags: amazon, transaera, dehumidification

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Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Russo | get Marine Biology Lab Puzzle → | tags: marine biological laboratory, mark terasaki, woods hole

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get Survival Solar Power Kit → | tags: nobel prize, physicist, humankind

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Ig Nobel Ceremony Relocates to Europe Amid Safety Concerns in Trump’s America (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-10 | get Igloo → | tags: annual, annual parody, concern

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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-10 | get Nobel Prize → | tags: ig nobel prizes, boston, switzerland