The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday announced that American Paul Krugman has won the Nobel economics prize "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity."
American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan shared the other half of the prize for discovering the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
Renowned Indian environmental economist and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) goodwill ambassador Pavan Sukhdev has won the 2020 Tyler Prize, regarded as the 'Nobel Prize for the Environment', for his ground-breaking "green economy" work. Sukhdev, 59, who will receive the award alongside conservation biologist Gretchen Daily, has been acknowledged for his work on bringing the economic consequences of environmental degradation and loss to the attention of corporate and political decision-makers.
Delivering a public lecture on 'Evolving Indian nuclear programme: Rationale and perspectives' organised by Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore on Friday, he said the currently-known uranium resources in the country were enough for setting up nearly 10,000 MWe installed capacity pressurised heavy water reactors and the country will need to import nuclear reactors and the fuel to achieve energy security.
Khan visited the Academy of Sciences and met some of his old friends, including Mubashir-ur-Rehman. He spent over two hours with them on Wednesday evening. The federal government has relaxed restrictions imposed on the scientist and he has been allowed to meet his friends, sources said.
NAS invites scientific write-ups on climate change by December 31, 2007
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have received the prize for developing an effective method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.
Dr Sreenivasan was one of the 72 new members, whose election was announced by NAS.
Free trade proponents to be tapped for Nobel economics prize
The reactor will provide a cheaper, safer, cleaner and endless energy resource, reducing the world's dependence on fossil fuels.
Bhargava, believed to have differences with Pitroda, said he had to pay for being honest and truthful.
An Indian American, Srinivasa SR Varadhan of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, has won the 2007 Abel Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
A Chinese researcher who is taking part in a month-long scientific expedition to the Himalayas, has found that the peaks may have reached their highest altitude, and may even shrink a little in the centuries to come.
Professor Dr Aravinda Chakravarti of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who is president-elect of the American Society of Human Genetics, and Professor Dr K Ranga Rama Krishnan of the Duke University Medical Center, who is now setting up a medical school in Singapore for Duke, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the three components of the National Academy of Sciences.
If you are good looking, then you surely have an edge over any other average looking person, especially if the interviewer is of the opposite sex, revealed a study. Researchers call this the 'halo effect'.
What damage does divorce do to Nature? A lot, say researchers. The global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more household with fewer people, has take up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water.
The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Edmund S. Phelps of the United States, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday.
The new findings suggest that millions of people may be receiving transfusion with blood that has impaired its ability to deliver oxygen.
The team observed a dialogue between the hippocampus and the neocortex, areas of the brain where memories are made and stored.
Fast meltdown of Himalayan glaciers threatening survival of Ganges, Indus.
The Karolinska Institute cited his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription in awarding him the 10 million kronor (1.37 million dollar) prize.
The plan points out the major tasks in science and technology, working out policies and measures for major reform.
Nooyi also indicated that PepsiCo will double its workforce in China over the next five years, which the company sees as a major growth market.
The Abel Prize is considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematics, and is worth $920,000.
They will be honoured by the Third World Academy of Sciences at the 10th General Conference in Brazil in 2006.
One of China's leading mobile phone manufacturers will launch the country's first cell phone with an inexpensive fingerprint verification system, which will allow Internet based e-transactions.
The pair won the prize "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
It is the size of 30 football pitches and is made up of 4,450 panels
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Consuming contaminated food or water can lead to this infection.
Researchers at the institute have been trying to engineer a patch of tissue that has the same properties as native heart tissue.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who was missing from the public's eye has suddenly resurfaced, with state media showing him walking with a cane as he gave "field guidance" at a new apartment complex on Tuesday.
The JNU administration's decision to ask historian Thapar to submit her CV for assessment for her continuation as professor emerita drew sharp criticism from various quarters.
Chen Chunxian, who set up China's first private technology development company and founded the communist nation's 'Silicon Valley' in Zhongguancun, has died, media reports said on Tuesday.
The sulphate present in the rain helps in retarding the process of global warming, an international research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has said.
Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon have won for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes.
Even though his theory is now firmly accepted in theoretical physics, there was no way to verify if black holes are mortal, according to Timothy Ferris, author of The Science of Liberty.
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