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Nobel laureate claims "AI will not be conscious" and shouldn't be considered intelligent — Until it develops its own ideas

Nobel prize winner Sir Roger Penrose asserts that AI cannot achieve consciousness, according to Gödel's "Incompleteness Theorem."

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Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review: tightly-plotted excellence

I’ve just finished a story about a man who has everything,” says Karim, the ostensible hero of Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 11th novel, set in 1990s Tanzania. “How do you think the story will end?” he asks Badar, his mother’s servant boy, in a cruel taunt disguised as a…

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Three novels by Nobel winner Han Kang that explain the fragile nature of South Korea

Last year, South Korea made headlines around the world for two reasons. The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature win in October; the second was far less positive. Late in the evening of December 3 2024, the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol unexpectedly declared martial law…

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‘AI will become very good at manipulating emotions’: Kazuo Ishiguro on the future of fiction and truth

On the 20th anniversary of Never Let Me Go, the Nobel prize-winning novelist talks about the role of the author in a post-truth world – and why he’s ‘not a great writer of prose’

The Guardian - UK

‘The definition of a classic’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go at 20

A Booker-winning author, a Nobel prize-winning scientist and the directors of the film and stage adaptations on why Ishiguro’s dystopian tale still speaks to us today

The Guardian - UK

Is Science Rigged for the Rich?

A recent study claiming inequality of opportunity in the sciences commits statistical and conceptual errors that make its findings meaningless.

Reason

Academic freedom and democracy under siege: how a Nobel peace prize could help defend them

Echoing the Stand Up for Science movement, which was organised in the US to defend academic freedom, a call to mobilise in France has been launched for Friday, March 7. Conferences, rallies and marches are being organised on the initiative of scientists united under the banner of Stand Up for…

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In We Do Not Part, Han Kang faces unbearable historical traumas with sorrow and compassion

It’s daunting to review a novel written by someone who, in 2024, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description that applies equally to this newly translated work.

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Let’s See Which Side Of Your Brain Is Really Running The Show

Your brain is a pretty big deal—it’s basically running the show 24/7, acting as the command center for your thoughts, feelings, and actions. It’s not just powerful—it’s unique, with each half playing a different role in how you think and feel. There’s a popular theory from the 1960s by Nobel…

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We Do Not Part by Han Kang review – a harrowing journey into South Korea’s bloody history

The Nobel prize-winner’s strange and unsettling new novel takes its protagonist on a mission that ends up confronting terrible pre-war violence

The Guardian - UK

We Do Not Part by Han Kang: a haunting story which forces the reader to remember a horrific incident in Korea’s past that it tried to erase

We Do Not Part is the latest book by Korean writer Han Kang, who won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024. The book begins in fragments that ebb between dark dream, waking nightmare and memories of how the book’s protagonist Kyungha got to this terrible way of living.

The Conversation

‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea

With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize

The Guardian - UK

£1.65m gene-editing therapy offers hope of cure for some blood disorder patients

The treatment uses gene-editing tool Crispr, which earned its inventors the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020.

The Independent UK

Sir Fraser Stoddart obituary

Organic chemist who shared the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry for his contribution to the development of molecular machines

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How Toni Morrison’s characters modeled womanhood and confinement in their dress

How people dress – their bodies, their communities, their houses – mattered a great deal to the Nobel prize winner

The Guardian - UK

Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe

More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production

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AI could usher in a golden age of research – but only if these cutting-edge tools aren’t restricted to a few major private companies

2024 has been called the year of AI in science. It saw the Nobel prizes in both physics and chemistry awarded to groups of AI researchers.

The Independent UK

Regulations needed to stop AI being used for ‘bad things’ – Geoffrey Hinton

Professor Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner, was once dubbed the ‘godfather’ of AI.

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Scientist says the one thing everyone hates about AI is ultimately what helped him win a Nobel Prize

In October, David Baker was the only American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2024.

The Guardian - UK

Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse review – what happens when we die

The Nobel prize winner pushes at the veil between this world and the next in the immersive tale of a solitary fisherman

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Guess If These 20 Famous Individuals Have Ever Won A Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world, honoring groundbreaking achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts for peace. Over the years, it has been awarded to some of the greatest minds and most influential figures in history—but not everyone who is deserving has…

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Horror, myth and a feminist reworking of Thomas Mann: Olga Tokarczuk’s The Empusium defies classification

You’ve got to hand it to the Nobel Prize in Literature committee: its citations are masterpieces of brevity and precision. Entire lifetimes of tireless, painstaking effort, thousands of pages written over decades, are summed up in a statement of around 20 words.

The Independent UK

Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang talks about how writing connects her to readers

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has spoken passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was 8 years old

The Independent UK

Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, is shocked by recent events in South Korea

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country

The Conversation

Why did Louis de Broglie, Nobel laureate in physics, abandon his own pilot wave theory?

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie’s doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel prize for “his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”. This discovery constitutes a central aspect of quantum mechanics, and it led to his famous “pilot wave” theory, which provides…

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