The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development for 2023 was presented to Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian peace activist Ali Abu Awwad on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development for 2023 was presented to Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian peace … Read more
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA. Their work helped explain how our genes work inside the human body. The winners share a prize fund worth get 11m Swedish kronor (£810,000). Source link
1 hour ago By James Gallagher, @JamesTGallagher, Health and science correspondent, BBC News Getty The £8m Longitude Prize has been won after a decade-long competition to find new tools to tackle the scourge of superbugs. It has been awarded for a test that rapidly detects whether an infection is caused by bacteria and identifies the right antibiotics to … Read more
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman developed the technology behind Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. Source link
Higher Education Minister R. Bindu presenting the Kairali Prize to writer M. Leelavathi in Ernakulam on Friday. Higher Education Minister R. Bindu presented the Kairali Lifetime Achievement Prize for Researchers to writer-literary critic M. Leelavathi on Friday. The award, comprising a cash prize of ₹2.5 lakh and a citation, was presented for comprehensive contributions to … Read more
Pictures from the short play “Kannadavendare Eegina Generation Ge Tondre” directed by Vicky Kudremukh, by the team Malenadu Rangathanda | Photo Credit: Yemen S The highly anticipated Bengaluru Short Play Festival 2023, a collaborative effort between Pravara Theatre and Ashvagosha Theatre Trust, was held on Sunday, July 2, at the K.H. Kalasoudha in Hanumanthanagara, Bengaluru. … Read more
The jury also acknowledged Ms. Roy’s “commitment to political action”. File | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Writer Arundhati Roy has been awarded the 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement, the Charles Veillon Foundation has announced. Ms. Roy has been awarded the prize for the French translation of her compilation of essays titled “Azadi” (2021). … Read more
Ms Holt, professor of developmental neuroscience in the department of physiology, development and neuroscience at Cambridge University, said: “Our work has revealed the surprisingly fast and precise mechanism by which brains ‘wire up’ during development and actively maintain their wiring throughout life. Source link
Sreelatha Namboothiri belies her age when she begins singing Enthini pazhsruthi meettuvathiniyum… The song, from the 1961 drama Doctor, is special to her. It had won her the first prize at the State School Arts Festival in 1964 at Thiruvalla. Not many people know that Sreelatha, who is better known as one of Malayalam cinema’s most … Read more
Sweden’s Svante Paabo wins the prize for discoveries on humanity’s extinct relatives. Source link