STOCKHOLM—The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labor market. She has studied 200 years of women’s participation in the workplace, showing that despite continued economic growth, women’s pay did not continuously catch up to men’s and […]
STOCKHOLM—Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic literature in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee, said Mr. Fosse’s work is rooted “in the language […]
STOCKHOLM—Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots, widely used today to create colours in flat screens, light emitting diode (LED) lamps and devices that help surgeons see blood vessels in tumors. The prize-awarding academy said […]
STOCKHOLM—Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating ultra-short pulses of light that can give a snapshot of changes within atoms, potentially leading to better detection of disease. The prize-awarding academy said their studies had given humanity new tools for exploring the movement of electrons inside […]
Two scientists who executed a development that helped lead to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines received a Nobel Prize on Oct. 2. Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman jointly received the Nobel in Medicine for developing a way to tamp down the body’s inflammatory response to messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), which were later used […]
STOCKHOLM—Winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will get an extra 1 million crowns, taking the total financial reward to 11 million Swedish crowns ($986,000), the Nobel Foundation, which administers the awards, said on Friday. The prize money has been adjusted up and down in recent years and the award-givers said it was increasing the amount […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—There is no mystery why the Mega Millions jackpot has grown to $1.55 billion, making it the third-largest ever ahead of Tuesday night’s drawing. The prize has ballooned because no one has matched the game’s six winning numbers since April 18, amounting to 31 straight drawings without a big winner. The nearly four-month-long […]
Another Powerball drawing ended with no winner Saturday night, sending the jackpot soaring to an estimated $900 million. No ticket for Saturday’s drawing matched the winning combination: white balls 2, 9, 43, 55, 57, and red Powerball 18. The jackpot was estimated at $875 million. Ticket buyers for Monday’s drawing have a chance at either […]
A Maryland man has struck gold a second time with his second big lottery win in just two months. The anonymous winner first lucked out with a $30,000 prize in January, according to a news release from the Maryland Lottery. Last week, he claimed a $50,000 prize, the lottery said Wednesday. The 56-year-old Baltimore resident […]
A Texas woman pleaded guilty last week as she admitted to stealing a $1 million dollar “scratch off” ticket from a relative. She claimed a lump-sum payout of more than $500,000 in November 2020. According to Nassau District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly, 34-year old Iris Amador Argueta of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty before Judge Howard […]
WASHINGTON—A little over a year after being celebrated at the Kennedy Center, Joni Mitchell will return to Washington for another lifetime achievement honor: the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Mitchell, 79, is widely regarded as among the greatest singer-songwriters of her time, with her best known works including “Chelsea Morning,” “Big Yellow […]
NEW YORK—The prize for best film of the year at the National Board of Review Awards went to “Top Gun: Maverick.” Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” took home the most trophies. But the night belonged to its best-director honoree, Steven Spielberg, and the parade of tributes paid to the 76-year-old filmmaker. So effusive was […]
The “world’s largest lotto prize ever offered”—an estimated $1.6 billion jackpot—is now at stake in Saturday’s Powerball drawing, the multi-state game operator said Friday. The jackpot, which has a lump-sum option of an estimated $782.4 million, “breaks the world record for the Largest National Lottery Jackpot in the Guinness World Records,” the participating California Lottery […]
STOCKHOLM—Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences along with two other U.S.-based economists for their research into bank failures. The Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip Dybvig on Monday for research that shows “why avoiding bank collapses is […]
OSLO—Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial, and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The award, the first peace prize since Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, has echoes of the Cold War era, when prominent Soviet dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn won […]
Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for proving that tiny particles could retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world applications such as encrypting information. Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser, and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were cited […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—Lottery officials on Friday raised the Mega Millions grand prize to $790 million, giving players a shot at what would be the nation’s fourth largest jackpot. The next drawing is on Tuesday. The jackpot has grown so large because there hasn’t been a winner in three months. Those 27 consecutive drawings without anyone […]
A North Carolina college student won a nice 19th birthday gift after buying her first lottery ticket: $100,000. Laniah Ashley, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, was back home in Clinton for spring break. While out with her grandparents for Chinese food on her birthday Wednesday, she bought a $20 100X The […]
