Two Americans, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, share this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics for developing new models to stabilize the economy during crises. “A huge honor,” Woodford says via a video link.
BusinessOptogenetics has been used to partially restore vision in blind people, and new results show that the Nobel Prize-winning technique works.
SwedenThe research, which is being awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine, could pave the way for new treatments for epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and depression. It is one of the biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience, says Professor Emeritus Merab Kokaia.
SwedenKarl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their research has made it possible to control and monitor individual cells using light.
SwedenPeople over 60 are exposed to heat-related health risks at significantly lower temperatures than previously thought. With an ageing population and more heat waves, more preparedness is needed, according to a new study.
SwedenThe US Federal Reserve (Fed) appears to have parried the Trump administration's attempts to influence monetary policy and threats of interest rate cuts for the time being. The Fed's independence is not under acute threat, according to SEB's US economist Elisabeth Kopelman.
BusinessA Wall Street billionaire or perhaps a former chief within the central bank Fed? USA's future president Donald Trump is said to be expanding the circle where he is seeking his future finance minister.
BusinessEurope is losing ground to Asia in the ranking of the world's best universities. But Swedish higher education institutions are climbing the most on the list when Times Higher Education ranks the 2,000 best in the world.
SwedenA low-hanging fruit that should buy the world more time in the fight against the gases that warm up the planet. But despite promises to the contrary, global methane emissions are increasing faster than ever before, according to researchers.
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