$1m prizes to complement Nobels
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Three new $1m awards for scientific endeavour are announced at the British Association festival in York.
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Two US-based professors have won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for Economics. The award has gone to Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott for their work in a field known as dynamic macro-economics.
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France wants the help of two Nobel prize winners to develop a new definition of economic growth.
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Giving cash prizes for solutions to thorny problems turns out to be a great way to tap the talents of geeks everywhere. The X Prize Foundation is just one source of funding for these contests ...
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New Delhi, Dec. 9: The Swedish government's kind gesture of replacing the stolen Nobel prize medal awarded to Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has not come without a price tag.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - In a tradition that has become as venerable as the 103-year-old Nobel Prizes themselves, the guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards next week has entered full swing.
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Back in the 1700s, prizes were a fairly common way to reward innovation. But todayâs economy doesnât have nearly enough of them.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Americans have dominated the annual Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences five years running, and it may not surprise Nobel watchers if the trend continues.
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A new Â£1m competition will enable 10 finalists to develop their ideas for tackling climate change.
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Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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By Erica Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 7--The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has awarded its annual Shaw Scientist prizes of $200,000 each to two young Wisconsin scientists whose work has shown promise for groundbreaking research.
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By Dan Margolies, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jan. 30--The grand prize was a $1.3 million mansion in Parkville, complete with Bentley automobile.   The proceeds were to benefit spinal cord-injury research.
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By KARL RITTER  STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The big-bang theory of the universe, microcredit and literature exploring Turkey's clash of cultures will be honored as six American scientists, a Bangladeshi economist and a Turkish novelist receive the Nobel Prizes Sunday in Stockholm and Oslo.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa and Asia.
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Awards or money: It's hard to earn both at the same time.
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A pair of Americans who found the mechanism that enables humans to recognize odors bags the Nobel Prize in medicine. Their pioneering work on 'the most enigmatic of our senses' wins them the $1.3 million award.
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The X Prize Foundation and the World Technology Network announced today the formation of a joint venture to launch a series of technology incentive prizes to help spur innovation and breakthroughs in a range of scientific arenas.