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Brodsky is quite good on Venetian lions and, far-fetched as it is, I quite enjoyed his comparison of the hideous modernist facade of the Hotel Bauer-Gruenwald and the adjacent seventeenth-century ...

Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

In his twenties, Maskin wrote an article that formalized the field of mechanism design in economics. This article, recognized by the Nobel Committee in 2007, was inspired by the work of Maskin’s ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Ralph Bunche received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself 'an incurable optimist'. Bunche was the first ...

He is the much-loved cousin of the most famous scientist in the world and prominent enemy of Nazism, Albert Einstein. Twelve hours later, the soldiers have vanished, and Robert’s wife and two ...

Even before he had a record contract, Bob Dylan was thinking about his visual presentation. Folk singer Dave Van Ronk advised him that he needed to think about his image, Dylan’s girlfriend Suze ...