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Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Kristian Berg Harpviken on Thursday said that over 287 candidates are shortlisted this year for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. US President Donald Trump is also likely among the nominees.Harpviken said 208 of the nominees are individuals and 79 are organisations, with several new names added this year.“Since I…
The debate over the impact of AI on jobs is intensifying, with Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu challenging Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that half of entry-level office hobs could be eliminated. Amodei has long warned of a looming ‘white-collar bloodbath’, but Acemoglu believes that such forecasts may underestimate the complexity of many office roles….
Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion (Credit-University of Oxford) Philippe Aghion has a critical piece of advice for Europe. In a recent interview, the 2025 Nobel laureate said Europe needs to reduce its reliance on external powers such as the US and invest more in its own technological capabilities. This comes after warnings from experts and industry…
Almost 130 years after Alfred Nobel’s death, the prize named after him continues to be among the world’s most coveted honours, recognising extraordinary achievements in fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences.A widely recounted, though sometimes disputed, story about the Swedish businessman, chemist, and inventor of dynamite suggests that the idea…
Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion (Credit-University of Oxford) The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is unlikely to trigger a global economic collapse on the scale of the 2008 financial crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Philippe Aghion has said, even as he warned that a prolonged war and sharply rising oil prices could slow global growth, AFP…
Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly played up his ties to the former head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in invitations to and chats with elites like Richard Branson, Larry Summers, Bill Gates and Steve Bannon, a top ally of President Donald Trump, the Epstein files show.Thorbjorn Jagland, who headed the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2009 to…
Iranian authorities have transferred Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi without prior notice to a prison in northern Iran, raising fresh concerns over her health and treatment in detention.Her family says the move, from a detention facility in Mashhad to Zanjan prison, was carried out without informing her lawyer or relatives, news agency AFP reported….
File photo: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammad (Picture credit: AP) Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to more than seven additional years in prison, according to her supporters and lawyer. The development comes as Mohammadi has reportedly been on a hunger strike since early February.Her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, confirmed the verdict…
When Tomas Lindahl was failed in Chemistry in school. Image credit: Getty images Great scientific careers rarely follow straight lines. They are shaped not only by talent and persistence, but also by institutions—and by the people who operate them. Tomas Robert Lindahl’s story begins with an uncomfortable reminder of that reality: failure.“I had a teacher…
What Nobel laureate Roy Glauber revealed about intuition, guesswork, and scientific careers. (Getty Images) Scroll past enough career advice on social media and you’ll start to believe that success is a straight line: study hard, follow the method, master the rules, and the results will come. There’s a quiet but damaging myth many of us…
