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IgNobel for showing chimps can recognize each other, front and back
Researcher Jennifer Pokorny is now the second UC Davis affiliate to win a prestigious Ig Nobel Prize. Pokorny collected the prize, which she shared with Frans de Waal of The Netherlands, at the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard …
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Of mice, flies, rice and men
Wednesday’s symposium on innate immunity was a big success with a capacity crowd of over 400 attendees at the UC Davis Conference Center. The audience heard Nobel Prize winners Bruce Beutler of the University of Texas and Jules Hoffmann of …
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Physics Nobel for “astounding” cosmic acceleration
This year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded for a “landmark in the history of human knowledge,” said Andy Albrecht, professor and chair of the physics department at UC Davis. Albrecht said he’d already emailed the recipients to congratulate …
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Nobel Prize for innate immunity
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Bruce Beutler of UCSF, Jules Hoffmann of CNRS, France, and Ralph Steinman of the Rockefeller University for work showing how the ancient, innate immune system is triggered and …
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Planck Telescope’s Map of Everything
A map of the Universe when it was just 300,000 years old is #7 on Discover magazine’s list of Top 100 Stories of 2010. The map comes from the Planck space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency in 2009 …
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Chemistry Nobel for joining carbon atoms
The 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry goes to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”. The method uses a catalyst that can make quick connections between different carbon atoms to build more …
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Two-D materials awarded 2010 Nobel for Physics
3-D may be all the rage in movie theaters, but since 2004 physicists have been getting excited about two-dimensional materials. Now the Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to two Russian-born scientists working in England, Andre Geim and Konstantin …
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Physics Nobel: How telephone echoes lead to digital cameras
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics is split between Charles Kao, for developing fiber optics, and Willard Boyle and George Smith, who invented the Charge Coupled Device or CCD at Bell Laboratories in 1969. CCDs are now the ubiquitous heart …
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Telomeres a Nobel No-brainer
Today’s award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine to Elizabeth Blackburn of UCSF, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University and Jack Szostak at Harvard, “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase,” …
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