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Nobel Prize awarded to scientists for discovering the brains inner GPS system
2014-10-06 15:27:25| Extremetech
2014's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser for their discovery of the brain's 'inner GPS' system. The prize revolves around their discovery of place cells and grid cells in the brain that appear to create a cognitive map of every room or space that you've ever explored. As you move around a room or space, a very specific place cell fires -- and when you visit the same place again in the future, the same place cell fires every time.
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Nobel Prize Winner Robert Lefkowitz: Science Cannot Make Headway Because Faith 'Untestable'
2014-04-22 05:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IBT: A Nobel Prize-winning biochemist has said the scientific community cannot make any headway among the religious community because "facts can't argue against faith". Robert Lefkowitz, who won a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2012, said that the reason many people still do not believe in popular science, including evolution, the Big Bang and climate change, is because you cannot challenge faith in the same way you can science. "When you are putting up facts against faith, facts can't argue against...
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'Nobel Prize in Computing' goes to Microsoft Research principal
2014-03-18 17:53:15| InfoWorld: Top News
Leslie Lamport, a Microsoft Research principal, has been named the winner of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing." The computer scientist was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for "imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages."
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Construction Week: Earthquake Hits Central Philippines; Housing Economist Shares Nobel Prize
2013-10-16 23:16:12| ENR.com: Headline News
An earthquake kills scores in the central Philippines, and the Nobel Prize for Economics goes to an economist best-known for his housing statistics.
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Trio awarded Nobel economics prize
2013-10-14 13:31:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The 2013 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller.
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