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Ethiopian Prime Minister Awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for Efforts for Peace, in Particular in Resolving Eritrea Border Conflict

The Nobel Prize for Peace was awarded on October 11 to the prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, for his work in restarting peace talks with neighboring Eritrea and beginning the restoration of freedoms in his country after decades of political and economic repression.

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Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Win the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes in Literature

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to Scholars Behind the Development of Lithium-ion Batteries

By Teodor Teofilov The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 9 to three scientists who developed the lithium-ion batteries that revolutionized portable electronic devices. It is very likely that the device you are using to read this article is powered by such a battery. Larger […]

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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Trio for Furthering our Understanding of Earth’s Place in the Cosmos

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to three scientists for furthering our understanding of the universe on Tuesday.

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Discovery of the Molecular Switch for How Cells Use Oxygen has Won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers who discovered the mechanism that cells use to sense and adapt to changing oxygen levels in the body, announced the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm on Monday.

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IPCC: Climate Change Has Taken A Devastating Toll On Oceans And Ice

New IPCC report warns that oceans are warming at an alarming rate, melting glaciers, depleting fish populations and making once a century events a yearly occurance.

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Bad News! Bad News Sells

Is the world really getting worse? Well, it doesn’t matter, because the nature of news will interact with the nature of cognition to make us believe that it is.