#Nobel prizes

[materialsscienceandengineering]

What are attoseconds? Nobel-winning physics explained

The Nobel Physics Prize was awarded on Tuesday to three scientists for their work on attoseconds, which are almost unimaginably short periods of time. Their work using lasers gives scientists a tool to observe and possibly even manipulate electrons, which could spur breakthroughs in fields such as electronics and chemistry, experts told AFP. How fast are attoseconds? Attoseconds are a billionth of a billionth of a second. To give a little perspective, there are around as many attoseconds in a single second as there have been seconds in the 13.8-billion year history of the universe. Hans Jakob Woerner, a researcher at the Swiss university ETH Zurich, told AFP that attoseconds are "the shortest timescales we can measure directly".

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#Materials Science #Science #Nobel prizes #Physics #Electrons #Lasers

[toddchavezwatchescartoons]

remember that time the Central Bank of Sweden paid to establish an entirely new award with “In Memory of Alfred Nobel” tacked onto the name as part of a psyop to try and convince people that economics is a real science? I bet they have a gold checkmark on Twitter too

#science #economics #nobel prizes

[gwydionmisha]

#Nobel Prizes #Lesbian #Bisexual #Queer Scientists #Scientists

[jingszo]

Ig Nobel Prizes honor zombie spiders, rock-licking scientists, and a clever commode

For instance, the team of researchers who won this year’s Ig Nobel for medicine peered into the noses of human cadavers to determine whether there are an equal number of hairs in each nostril. “The information we needed was not available in anatomy texts, so we decided to find out on our own,” 

The hairy study could help guide treatment for patients with alopecia, a disease that causes hair loss. People with alopecia often lose their nasal hairs

Other winning research included a study that explored reanimating dead spiders in order to use them as mechanical gripping tools. It’s a contribution to the burgeoning (and terrifying) field of “necrobotics,” which uses living (or, more accurately, formerly living) materials to build robots.

#Nobel Prizes #necrobotics

[irishgop]

AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MARIE CURIE: "To Mrs. Russell Tyson / with my friendship / M. Curie".

#marie curie #Nobel prizes #henri manuel #female physicist #legendary physicists #Mrs Russell Tyson

[mintiestcrystal]

i find it so unfair that i cant do all the science. like what do you MEAN I can't study bio and chem and biochem and atrophysics and physics and geology and climate science. what do you MEAN i have a limited lifespan and need to get out of school at some point to get a job. i want to collect the science fields like pokemon, this isn't fair

#minty's crystals #science #biology #chemistry #physics #astrophysics #astronomy #stem #I'm literally such a nerd but i want to learn EVERYTHING i want to be the MASTER OF SCIENCE #also i wanna be famous for it #something something nobel prize something something cover of time magazine #academia #chaotic academia

[undertheredhood]

AU where jason todd goes back to school and gets a phd because while he was describing his multi-step plan to take over gotham and use bruce to kill the joker to talia she just said “oh, so you want to become a useless dropout just like your brother and father? talk about setting a bad example for damian.” which offended jason so much that he immediately re-enrolled to finish high school.

#dc comics #dc universe #dcu #batman #red hood #jason todd #jason peter todd #talia al ghul #talia #jason was never the angry robin #batfamily #batfam #jason todd goes back to school #jason todd finishes his education #smart jason todd #college student jason todd #talia spent so much time taking care of jason that she knows exactly how to manipulate him #jason accidentally becomes the golden child again because he’s the only one who actually finished his education #jason todd wins a nobel prize due to his research and is now forever the person his siblings get compared to #jason todd is an overachiever #jason todd headcanon #jason todd hc #jason todd prompt #jason todd au #he also publishes an angsty novel that makes even ra’s al ghul of all people cry

[dduane]

Almost certainly paywalled, but the lede alone is worth it. :)

#COVID #Nobel Prize

[politicoscope]

Iran Just Barred From 2022 Nobel Prize Ceremony

Iran Just Barred From 2022 Nobel Prize Ceremony

The ambassador of Iran also been excluded from this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of “the serious and escalating situation” in the country, the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards said Friday. Earlier this week, the envoys of Russia and Belarus were barred from attending the glittery event because of the war in Ukraine. “We believe that given the serious…

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#Iran #Nobel Prize #Nobel Prize Ceremony #Nobel Prizes

[reportwire]

Today in History: October 14, Martin Luther King wins Nobel

Today in History: October 14, Martin Luther King wins Nobel

Today in History Today is Friday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2022. There are 78 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. On this date: In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings. In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England,…

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Quantum dots: the tiny 'rainbow' crystals behind chemistry Nobel

Quantum dots are tiny crystals that scientists can tune to different colors, giving an extra-vivid pop to next-generation TV screens or illuminating tumors inside bodies so surgeons can hunt them down. Three scientists won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for their work turning an idea first theorized in the 1930s into a reality that now has pride of place in living rooms across the world. What are they? Quantum dots are semiconducting particles just one thousandth the width of a human hair. In 1937, the physicist Herbert Froehlich predicted that once particles were small enough—so-called nanoparticles—they would come under the strange spell of quantum mechanics.

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#Materials Science #Science #Quantum dots #Nobel prizes #Semiconductors #Nanoparticles #Quantum mechanics

[drmukeshchauhan-blog-blog]

11 Nobel Prizes India can win

11 Nobel Prizes India can win

11 Nobel Prizes India can win  11 Nobel Prizes India can win  11 Nobel Prizes India can win: Just look at the breadth of Nobel Prize winning scientific discoveries author has made in his epic journey. I had no idea my life was going to change so radically after embarking on a Journey to help make a Temple. At the end of making a Temple, I left worshipping or going to any Temples. I had made the…

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#11 Indian can win #Nobel Prizes

[timothvy]

they will be destroying the science lab <3

#either they will come up with the most genius nobel peace prize idea or they accidentally spawn the most wretched disease #that they take to the batcave and ignite it behind those comically large safety helmets #dc #tim drake #yj #my art #art #dc comics #bart allen #tim drake fanart #bart allen fanart #dc impulse #dc comics fanart #artists on tumblr #batfam

[blueskittlesart]

they werent lying that man can chainsaw

#shes explaining her plan to win the nobel prize #'blue isnt this an edited version of 2 seperate meme images' yeah but it fits them better. shut up #csm #chainsaw man #skribbles

[reasonsforhope]

"Is social media designed to reward people for acting badly?

The answer is clearly yes, given that the reward structure on social media platforms relies on popularity, as indicated by the number of responses – likes and comments – a post receives from other users. Black-box algorithms then further amplify the spread of posts that have attracted attention.

Sharing widely read content, by itself, isn’t a problem. But it becomes a problem when attention-getting, controversial content is prioritized by design. Given the design of social media sites, users form habits to automatically share the most engaging information regardless of its accuracy and potential harm. Offensive statements, attacks on out groups and false news are amplified, and misinformation often spreads further and faster than the truth.

We are two social psychologists and a marketing scholar. Our research, presented at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit, shows that social media actually has the ability to create user habits to share high-quality content. After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based...

Re-targeting rewards

To investigate the effect of a new reward structure, we gave financial rewards to some users for sharing accurate content and not sharing misinformation. These financial rewards simulated the positive social feedback, such as likes, that users typically receive when they share content on platforms. In essence, we created a new reward structure based on accuracy instead of attention.

As on popular social media platforms, participants in our research learned what got rewarded by sharing information and observing the outcome, without being explicitly informed of the rewards beforehand. This means that the intervention did not change the users’ goals, just their online experiences. After the change in reward structure, participants shared significantly more content that was accurate. More remarkably, users continued to share accurate content even after we removed rewards for accuracy in a subsequent round of testing. These results show that users can be given incentives to share accurate information as a matter of habit.

A different group of users received rewards for sharing misinformation and for not sharing accurate content. Surprisingly, their sharing most resembled that of users who shared news as they normally would, without any financial reward. The striking similarity between these groups reveals that social media platforms encourage users to share attention-getting content that engages others at the expense of accuracy and safety...

Doing right and doing well

Our approach, using the existing rewards on social media to create incentives for accuracy, tackles misinformation spread without significantly disrupting the sites’ business model. This has the additional advantage of altering rewards instead of introducing content restrictions, which are often controversial and costly in financial and human terms.

Implementing our proposed reward system for news sharing carries minimal costs and can be easily integrated into existing platforms. The key idea is to provide users with rewards in the form of social recognition when they share accurate news content. This can be achieved by introducing response buttons to indicate trust and accuracy. By incorporating social recognition for accurate content, algorithms that amplify popular content can leverage crowdsourcing to identify and amplify truthful information.

Both sides of the political aisle now agree that social media has challenges, and our data pinpoints the root of the problem: the design of social media platforms."

And here's the video of one of the scientsts presenting this research at the Nobel Prize Summit!

-Article via The Conversation, August 1, 2023. Video via the Nobel Prize's official Youtube channel, Nobel Prize, posted May 31, 2023.

#social media #misinformation #social networks #social #algorithm #big tech #technology #enshittification #internet #nobel prize #psychology #behavioral psychology #good news #hope #Youtube #video

[girlactionfigure]

#Israel #October 7 #UNRWA #Nobel Peace Prize #WTF