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Nobel Prizes for Sciences announced

Annoucement of Nobel Prizes for outstanding achievement in medicine, physics and chemistry

Annoucement of Nobel Prizes for outstanding achievement in physiology or medicine (for discoveries of gene function in mice using embryonic stem cells), chemistry (solid surfaces and catalysis), and physics (giant magnetoresistance – GMR – that enables information storage on disks). How Nasa's New Horizons space probe has provided exciting new data on Jupiter as it heads towards the Kuiper belt. The stickiest tape in the world inspired by the sticky feet of tree frogs and geckos. Why many indigenous breeds of livestock face exinction. How languages evolve and change like populations.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service Archive

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