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• Nobel prizes 2014 – the winners

  13 Oct 2014: Each prize is worth over a million dollars for those who ‘have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind’
  

• How to keep your brain healthy

  12 Oct 2014: Could sudoku, drugs and a Mediterranean diet help keep our brains fit? Ann Robinson reports on the latest neuroscience research

• How the brain navigates: science Nobel prize special – podcast

  Audio (52min 19sec), 10 Oct 2014:

  We speak to the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, who discovered 'the brain's GPS'

• Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, William Moerner win Nobel Prize in Chemistry – as it happened

  8 Oct 2014: Two US and one German scientist win Nobels for opening a window into the nanoworld with their development of ‘super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’

• Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to trio for pioneering microscope work

  8 Oct 2014: Winners made it possible to see features at the scale of billionths of a metre, smashing a theoretical barrier for optical microscopy

• Lightbulb moment for Nobel physicists: prize awarded for inventing blue LEDs

  7 Oct 2014: One laureate paid just $200 for invention that allows energy-efficient lighting and could save quarter of world’s electricity

• Nobel prize in physics goes to inventors of blue light-emitting diodes

  7 Oct 2014: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win prize for energy-efficient and environment-friendly blue LEDs

• Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 – as it happened

  7 Oct 2014: Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at Nagoya University, Japan, and Shuji Nakamura of UC Santa Barbara have won for inventing blue light-emitting diodes, ‘a new, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly light source’

• A married couple won the Nobel prize – we know what they go through

  7 Oct 2014: Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together under the pseudonym Nicci French, discuss the pitfalls of living and working together

• Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources

  7 Oct 2014: Eleven holders of prestigious prize say excessive consumption threatening planet, and humans need to live more sustainably

• Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for finding brain’s ‘you are here’ cells

  6 Oct 2014: Winning research answered question that stumped philosophers for hundreds of years: how do we know our place in the world?
  

• Nobel prize find: search for ‘soul of rat’ revealed brain’s navigation system

  6 Oct 2014: Nobel prizewinning discovery shows just how beautiful our brains can be in the patterns they create and weave

• John O’Keefe, May-Britt and Edvard Moser win Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – as it happened

  6 Oct 2014: John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 for an ‘inner GPS’ in the brain

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for locating brain’s GPS

  6 Oct 2014: John O’Keefe, May-Britt and Edvard Moser found how the brain creates a map to enable us to navigate our environment

• Ig Nobels: British researchers take coveted science humour prize

  19 Sep 2014: UK researchers reveal people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, manipulative and psychopathic

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