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Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates | Human Rights News

Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised as health deteriorates | Human Rights News

Published by Sam Flores

Mohammadi has lost consciousness twice and suffered a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation has announced. By Al Jazeera Staff and The Associated Press Published On 1 May 20261 May 2026 Iranian human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been transferred from prison to a hospital due to a sharp decline in her health. Mohammadi had two episodes of complete loss of consciousness and a severe cardiac crisis, her foundation announced on Friday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “This transfer was done as an unavoidable necessity after prison doctors determined her condition could not be managed on-site, despite standing medical recommendations that she be treated by her specialized team in Tehran,” the Narges Mohammadi Foundation said. Earlier on Friday, Mohammadi had fainted twice in prison in Zanjan in northwestern Iran, according to the foundation. She was believed to have suffered a heart attack in late March, according to her lawyers, who visited her a few days after the incident. At the time, she appeared pale, underweight and needed …

Nobel Physicist Predicts ‘End-Date’ For Modern Civilization

Nobel Physicist Predicts ‘End-Date’ For Modern Civilization

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has provided a sobering timeline for the potential end of modern civilisation, citing the escalating risks of nuclear war. The 2004 Nobel laureate estimates that humanity may have roughly 35 years remaining before facing existential catastrophe from nuclear conflict. In an interview, Gross detailed his assessment based on probability calculations similar to radioactive half-life models. He noted that after the Cold War, estimates put the annual chance of nuclear war at one percent. However, he believes the figure is now closer to two percent. Chilling warning from Nobel physicist as date is set for humanity’s final destruction https://t.co/WKhFHWcIs3 — Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) April 20, 2026 “Even after the Cold War ended, when we had strategic arms control treaties, all of which have disappeared, there were estimates that there was a one percent chance of nuclear war every year,” Gross said. He continued, “I feel it’s not a rigorous estimate that the chances are more likely two percent. So that’s a one-in-50 chance every year. …

Iran’s Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi May Have Had a Heart Attack

Iran’s Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi May Have Had a Heart Attack

Published by Sam Flores

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi may have suffered a heart attack, one of her lawyers said Tuesday. Two of Mohammadi’s lawyers and her sister visited her in Zanjan Prison in northwestern Iran on Sunday, her French lawyer, Chirinne Ardakani, told The Associated Press after being briefed by the two Iranian lawyers who went to the prison. “When my colleagues saw her, they were shocked because she was very pale and had lost a lot of weight, and she was not alone but aided by a nurse,” Ardakani said. She added that, according to Mohammadi, her fellow inmates told her that on March 24 she was unconscious for over an hour. Upon later examination at the prison’s clinic, a doctor told her that she probably had had a heart attack. “She said she has since been having chest pain more than once a day and she has breathing difficulties and that she is in a very bad state,” Ardakani said. She said Mohammadi has been denied transfer to the hospital …

Nobel prize winner invents machine that pulls water from dry air

Nobel prize winner invents machine that pulls water from dry air

Published by Jenni Sidey

The desert doesn’t look like it has anything to give. Then night falls, the air cools, and a quiet trickle of water begins to gather. That is the basic promise behind a new hand-held atmospheric water harvester built at UC Berkeley. It is a device that captures water molecules from air at night, then uses only ambient sunlight during the day to release that moisture and condense it into drinkable water. In tests in Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest and driest places in North America, the system kept working through wide temperature swings. It also functioned well with very low humidity. “Almost one-third of the world’s population lives in water-stressed regions. The UN projects in the year 2050 that almost 5 billion people on our planet will experience some kind of water stress for a significant part of the year,” said Omar Yaghi, a Berkeley chemistry professor who leads the work and is known for inventing metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. “This is quite relevant to harnessing a new source for water.” The …

Nobel winner quits Columbia U. brain institute

Nobel winner quits Columbia U. brain institute

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Dr. Richard Axel at Le Bernardin Prive in New York on July 26, 2017. Craig Barritt | Getty Images Dr. Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, said he is stepping down as co-director of Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute on the heels of his association with notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein drawing public attention. “My past association with Jeffrey Epstein was a serious error in judgment, which I deeply regret,” Axel, 79, said in a statement on Tuesday. “I apologize for compromising the trust of my friends, students, and colleagues,” Axel said. “I recognize the problems this has caused, and I will work to restore this trust. What has emerged about Epstein’s appalling conduct, the harm that he has caused to so many people, makes my association with him all the more painful and inexcusable.” This photo illustration shows redacted documents from the Epstein Library files released by the Department of Justice in Washington, Feb. 18, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Axel has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection …

Where Trump Went Wrong in His Quest for the Nobel Prize

Where Trump Went Wrong in His Quest for the Nobel Prize

Published by Daniella Wilson

Jonas Gahr Støre, the mild-mannered prime minister of Norway and the scion of a wealthy industrial family, was returning home from a ski outing one Sunday last month when he decided to dash off a text message to Donald Trump. Composing it from the car, he proposed that the leaders talk to find an off-ramp from the looming crisis over Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory that the American president has been publicly threatening to seize. Trump’s campaign poses a threat not just to Greenland and Denmark but also to NATO. The day before Støre’s text, Trump had vowed to impose tariffs on a handful of European countries that had sent soldiers to the Arctic territory in a show of unity with Denmark. The Norwegian prime minister suggested to Trump that they “deescalate,” entreating him, “so much is happening around us where we need to stand together.” The message was co-signed by another Scandinavian leader, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland. Two hours later, Støre was sitting at his desk at home when Trump’s reply arrived. …

Nobel laureate says he’ll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

Nobel laureate says he’ll build world’s most powerful quantum computer

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Ryan Wills for New Scientist; Alamy John Martinis is a hardware guy. He prefers the nitty-gritty of doing physics in the lab over the idealised world of textbooks. But you couldn’t write the quantum computing history books without him: he was central to two of the most pivotal moments in the field. And he is hard at work chasing the next one. It started in the 1980s, when Martinis and his colleagues ran a series of experiments to probe the edges of what was known about quantum effects – for this work, he won a Nobel prize last year. Back when he was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, we knew that subatomic particles were subject to quantum effects, but the question was whether the world of quantum mechanics could extend to larger scales. Martinis and his colleagues built and studied circuits made from a mix of superconductors and insulators where, it turned out, many charged particles within the circuit behaved as if they were a single quantum particle. This was macroscopic …

A Nobel Prize-Winner Wrote the Boarding School Book of All Boarding School Books

A Nobel Prize-Winner Wrote the Boarding School Book of All Boarding School Books

Published by José Betancourt

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature and has produced numerous award-winning books, including The Remains of the Day, which is perhaps his most widely-known novel. Japanese-born but raised in Surrey from an early age, Ishiguro’s England is at once quintessentially English and entirely unique. I would also use these words to describe Never Let Me Go and if you have the privilege of enjoying this book for the first time, I recommend you go into it knowing as little as possible about the premise. I’ll do my best to avoid divulging too much here. I will tell you that it’s set in a boarding school in the English countryside and that our narrator, Kathy, is a compelling observer of her and her classmates’ lives at Hailsham, revealing just enough to clue you in that something isn’t adding up without being so obscure that the story lags. In fact, the curiosities and questions she and her companions, Ruth and Tommy, explore build the tension and sustain …

Progressive outlet The Nation nominating city of Minneapolis for Nobel Peace Prize

Progressive outlet The Nation nominating city of Minneapolis for Nobel Peace Prize

Published by Sam Flores

Progressive outlet The Nation is nominating the city of Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize in the wake of tensions over President Trump’s immigration agenda in the city. In a Wednesday piece, The Nation’s editors stated that they “are in the process of formally nominating the city of Minneapolis and its people for” this year’s… Source link

The only person to win an Olympic medal and a Nobel Peace Prize

The only person to win an Olympic medal and a Nobel Peace Prize

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The serious son of Quaker parents, Philip Noel-Baker was first a scholar, then an Olympian, and finally a Nobel Peace Prize winner. He is the only person ever to have won both an Olympic medal and a Nobel.   First, an Olympic medal By 1912, Noel-Baker had already earned honors in history and economics at Cambridge, and he was on the way to a graduate degree in international law. But the 22-year-old was also president of the Cambridge Athletic Club, and that July he took some time off from his studies to join the British track and field team for the fifth modern Olympic Games in Stockholm. It was an eventful Olympiad. The American multi-sport phenom Jim Thorpe easily won the pentathlon and decathlon, prompting an impressed King Gustav V of Sweden to declare Thorpe “the greatest athlete in the world.” That year saw the Olympic debuts of equestrian sports, women’s aquatics, and the nation of Japan. Great Britain took …