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The winners of the prestigious Shaw Prize, which is also called the "Nobel Prize of Asia," for 2014 were announced on  27 May, 2014, at a press conference held in Hong Kong.  
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The perplexing case of the STAP cell research, which caught the world’s attention, continues to remain in news. You can read the entire story in brief here.
Although the pace of scientific progress has been rapid, at times, its momentum falters due to stumbling blocks such as irreproducibility of research, fraudulent publications, and honest mistakes.