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Nobel Economists Looked at Finding The Best Deals When You Can’t Use Money
Two Americans explain how to best bring groups together
October 15, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Sounding Smart with SmartNews: Your Cheat Sheet to the Nobels
Here, in Twitter-sized bites, are descriptions of the work that won the Nobel this week
October 12, 2012 |
By Sarah Laskow
More Chocolate, More Nobels
Chocolate consumption statistically relates to Nobel Prizes
October 12, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
A New Great Depression and Ladies on the Moon: 1970s Middle School Kids Look to the Year 2000
The ideal future according to a ten-year-old: shorter school days, lower taxes, and lots and lots of robots
October 12, 2012 |
By Matt Novak
Bafflement Over the European Union’s Peace Prize Win
The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, much to the dismay of many Europeans and Tweeters
October 12, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
The Traumatic Birth of the Modern (and Vicious) Political Campaign
When Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California in 1934, new media were marshaled to beat him
October 11, 2012 |
By Gilbert King
Four Surprising Places Where Local Wines Thrive
Almost everywhere European explorers went, vineyards grew behind them. Here are a few places tourists might never have known there was wine to taste
October 11, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
China’s ‘Provocative and Vulgar’ Mo Yan Wins Nobel in Literature
Chinese author Mo Yan took this year's Nobel Prize in Literature for his "hallucinatory realism"
October 11, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Events October 12-14: Dream Homes, Classic Jewelry and Printmaking
It's a full weekend of artist discussions, seminars and workshops for the home, fashion and art enthusiasts.
October 11, 2012 |
By Leah Binkovitz
The Science Behind Steak and a Bold Bordeaux
Researchers teasing out the way food feels and interacts in our mouths say they've found out why wine and steak pair so well
October 10, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Everyone Believed Cell Receptors Existed, But Chemistry Nobelists Figured Out That They Actually Did
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work that helped to figure out the functioning of cellular receptors
October 10, 2012 |
By Colin Schultz
Painting Portraits With Bacteria
Microbiologist Zachary Copfer has created detailed portraits of famous artists and scientists in petri dishes
October 10, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
Where Travelers Go to Pay Their Respects
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is not a fun place to go, yet tourists flock here, and to
other somber sites around the world
October 09, 2012 |
By Alastair Bland
Shrew-Eating Scientists Show Humans Can Digest Bone
Scientists set out to measure how well we digest bone by swallowing a whole shrew, but was that really necessary?
October 09, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Today’s Physics Nobel Prize Didn’t Go to the Higgs
The winning research centers around figuring out the way light behaves at a very fundamental level - a field called "quantum optics"
October 09, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Bioluminescent Worms Welcomed Columbus to the New World
Before Columbus made landfall in the New World 520 years ago today, glowing green worms engaged in a mating dance may have welcomed him first
October 08, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
Brewmaster Makes Beer From His Beard Yeast
Most fermenting species of yeast are found on animals, insects and rotting fruit, so cultivating yeast from a person's body might not be that far-fetched
October 08, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
The Two Newest Nobel Prize Winners Opened Up Pandora’s Box of Stem Cell Research And Cloning
Today's Nobel Prize in medicine went to Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon for their work on stem cell research and cloning
October 08, 2012 |
By Rose Eveleth
Events October 9-11: Short Films, Chef Demonstrations and a Shanghai Quartet
This week at the Smithsonian, daily screenings, the best of American cuisine and new arrangements of Chinese folk songs
October 08, 2012 |
By Leah Binkovitz
French Bees Are Making M&M-Contaminated Blue And Green Honey
In northeastern France, bees have been turning up with abdomens swollen in colors of blue and green, an unnatural rainbow that was also reflected in their honey
October 05, 2012 |
By Rachel Nuwer
