The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 7, 2017
British author Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. While making the announcement for this Prize, the Nobel Committee said, that Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 6, 2017
Who will win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature? Watch the live announcement now!
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- October 5, 2017
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded three researchers with the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of…
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- October 4, 2017
Who will win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry? Watch the live announcement now!
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- October 4, 2017
The detection of the universe’s gravitational waves was a groundbreaking discovery in the field of physics. In recognition of this, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Rainer Weiss, Barry…
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- October 3, 2017
Who will win the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics? Watch the live announcement now!
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- October 3, 2017
Three American researchers – Jeffrey C. Hall of the University of Maine, Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University, and Michael W. Young of Rockefeller University – have been awarded the 2017 Nobel…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 3, 2017
Which form of closed peer review do authors prefer – single-blind or double-blind review? A new large-scale study conducted by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in London concluded that few authors…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 28, 2017
P value is the most commonly reported statistic in research papers, and is probably the most misunderstood and misused of all statistics. Now academics are divided on whether or not the threshold of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 21, 2017