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The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony is held on December 10th (anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death) in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden. Photo is from 2017 (Holger.Ellgaard, Konserthuset dec 2010, CC BY-SA 3.0)

2017 Nobel Science Prizes

October 6, 2017

It’s that time of year again – when the annual Nobel Prize winners are announced. Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the honors in 1895, with the first prizes awarded in 1901. The 2017 Nobel Prize science awards were announced on Monday, October 2nd through Wednesday, October 4th. First, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute […]

Researchers Doubt the Existence of Dark Energy

April 10, 2017

According to NASA, the universe is composed of three things. About 4.6% of it is normal (visible) matter, 24% is dark matter and the remaining 71.4% is made up of dark energy. In other words, hypothetically speaking, around 95% of everything in the universe can’t even be seen. Now a Hungarian and American team of […]

Our Expanding Universe; LISA Pathfinder is a Success; Drugs in Waterways

June 9, 2016

How Fast is the Universe Expanding? The universe is a big place. And it’s getting even bigger, and at a faster rate than scientists had predicted.  That’s according to a new study at Johns Hopkins University, led by Professor Adam Reiss. The study is based on an analysis of data gathered by the Hubble Space […]

Atoms Star in Smallest Movie Ever Made

May 1, 2013

The World’s Smallest Stop-action Movie (IBM) Bigger is often better in Hollywood, but IBM is drawing lots of attention for making the smallest movie ever. A Boy and His Atom is a stop-motion, animated movie made with thousands of precisely positioned atoms in nearly 250 motion picture frames.  The folks at Guinness World Records®  verified […]

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