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MNA International Desk: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics of this year on Monday for research on alleviating global poverty. Indian-born Abhijit Banerjee is an American citizen while Esther Duflo is French-American. Michael Kremer is also from the US. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in a press release, said the trio pioneered an approach to poverty reduction that was based on carefully designed experiments that sought answers to specific policy questions, report CNN and NDTV. Abhijit Banerjee, 58, was born in India and has a PhD from Harvard University. He is ...

MNA Business Desk: The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, more commonly known as the Nobel prize for economics, has been awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for innovation, climate and economic growth. William Nordhaus is being recognised for his work on the damage caused by climate change, reported news agency. Paul Romer has examined how economists can achieve a healthy rate of economic growth. The models that Nordhaus and Romer have created have helped with the development of economic growth, and with combatting climate change, we’re hearing. They have taken macroeconomics to ...

MNA Science Desk: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter on Wednesday for their work harnessing the power of evolution to develop proteins that solve humankind’s chemical problems, reports news agency. A committee member explains that the scientists have ‘applied the principles of Darwin in the test tube.’ Chemistry is the third of this year’s Nobels and comes after the prizes for Medicine and Physics were awarded earlier this week. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the trio managed to ...

MNA Feature Desk: One of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, Albert Einstein passed away on this day, April 18, in the year 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey, from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. After his death, while performing the autopsy, Princeton pathologist Thomas Harvey removed the scientist’s brain and kept it aside in the hope of unlocking the secrets of his genius. Later, after he was able to get approval of Einstein’s son, Harvey chopped the brain into pieces and sent it to various scientists for research. In the year 1999, a team from a Canadian university published ...

MNA Culture & Entertainment Desk: Bob Dylan finally accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature at a jovial, champagne-laced  ceremony on Saturday, the Swedish Academy announced. The academy, which awards the coveted prize, ended prolonged speculation as to whether the 75-year-old troubadour would use a concert stopover in Stockholm to accept the gold medal and diploma awarded to him back in October. The first songwriter to receive the prestigious award, Dylan joins a celebrated group of laureates including Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Doris Lessing. The meeting took place at a secret location ahead of Dylan’s first ...

MNA International Desk: Japan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, which could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes. “Ohsumi’s discoveries led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell recycles its content,” the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said in a statement on awarding the prize of 8 million Swedish crowns ($933,000). “His discoveries opened the path to understanding … many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or ...