Japan holds peaceful march against nuclear power
Thousands of Japanese joined a march against nuclear power as worries grow about the restarting of reactors idle since the March 11 meltdown disaster.
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Israel's schools slammed for underperforming
A growing chorus of critics has warned that Israel's educational mix will compromise the country's ability to continue generating dazzling technology.
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Nobel season kicks off with medicine prize
The Nobel season opens with the medicine prize announcement, with the peace and literature awards both tipped to be coloured by the Arab Spring.
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Medicine leads Nobel season
The Nobel season opens Monday with the medicine prize and all eyes are fixed on the prestigious peace prize.
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Stem cells, obesity finding lead Nobel predictions
Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel prizes.
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Nobel winners highlight education as tool for peace
Thirty-one Nobel Peace Prize winners have urged world leaders to devote more attention to children who live in conflict zones and cannot go to school.
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Two Japanese, American win 2008 physics Nobel
Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles.
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'People familiar with my work were slowly dying off'
Leonid Hurwicz, the oldest Nobel Prize recipient who shared the award in economics last year, has died at age 90.
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