Method for building complex molecules helps fight cancer, protect crops _ and wins Nobel Prize

Trio wins Nobel for developing key chemistry tool

China drives away promising candidates, faces hurdles amid quest for a Nobel Prize

China faces hurdles amid quest for a Nobel Prize

A list of recent Nobel Prize in chemistry winners

List of recent Nobel Prize in chemistry winners

2 Japanese, American share chemistry Nobel for cross couplings

2 Japanese, American share chemistry Nobel

Correction: Nobel-Medicine story

Correction: Nobel-Medicine story

NEW YORK — In a story Oct. 4 about the Nobel Prize in medicine, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a Stockholm woman who gave birth after vitro fertilization treatments. Her name is Johanna Mannung, not Nannung.

UK-based scientists win Nobel physics prize for ultrathin carbon 100 times stronger than steel

Nobel Prize honors super-strong, super-thin carbon

Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov win Nobel Prize in physics for graphene breakthrough

2 professors in UK win Nobel Prize in physics

2 Russian-born scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for graphene breakthrough

Russian-born scientists win Nobel Prize in physics

Excerpts from the citation for the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics

Excerpts from 2010 Nobel physics prize citation

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics through 2010

Recent winners of Nobel Prize in physics

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov win Nobel Prize in physics for graphene breakthrough

Geim and Novoselov win Nobel Prize in physics

New York-based theater group The Civilians awarded a $700K National Science Foundation grant

NY-based theater group wins $700K government grant

Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain wins 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine

Nobel Prize given for test tube baby research

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine

Japanese stem cell pioneer among possible candidates for Monday’s Nobel Prize in medicine

Stem cell pioneer mentioned for Nobel Prize

Pain management through swearing, whale snot gathering among winners at Ig Nobel awards

Obscenity, whale snot take top honors at Ig Nobels

Scientists honored for research in age-related vision loss and biological basis of obesity

Prizes honor studies in vision loss, obesity

Stem cell researcher, Brazilian mathematician and father of micro-history win Balzan prizes

Japanese stem cell researcher wins Balzan prize

Jacobs Engineering gets Indian energy, California rail contracts

Jacobs Engineering gets 2 contracts

PASADENA, Calif. — Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a construction and engineering firm, said Tuesday that it has been awarded two contracts for work on energy and rail projects.

Russian mathematician says his final no to $1 million prize

Russian mathematician rejects $1 million prize

Transplant groups win Spanish Prince of Asturias award for International Cooperation

Transplant groups win Asturias award

MADRID — Two organizations that have worked together to promote a global strategy for ethical organ donations were awarded Spain’s Prince of Asturias award for international cooperation on Wednesday.

UNESCO delays awarding contested prize named after president of Equatorial Guinea

UNESCO delays awarding contested prize

PARIS — The United Nations’ arm for education, science and culture decided Tuesday to delay awarding a prize that had outraged critics because it was named for Equatorial Guinea’s longtime dictator.

Top Portuguese science award goes to 2 US neuroscientists researching human sight

Top Portuguese award goes to 2 US scientists

Swiss scientist Michael Graetzel wins €800,000 technology prize for cheap solar cells

Swiss solar cell inventor wins technology prize

Equatorial Guinea president defends UNESCO prize in his name that critics call disgrace

Equatorial Guinea defends UN prize critics blast

8 scientists winners of lucrative Kavli Prizes in astronomy, neuroscience and nanoscience

8 scientists share lucrative Kavli Prizes

OSLO, Norway — Eight scientists from the U.S., Britain and Germany shared three awards worth $1 million each on Thursday for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe and the tiniest particles on Earth.

8 scientists share $1 million Kavli Prizes in astronomy, neuroscience and nanoscience

8 scientists share $1 million Kavli Prizes

British physicist Stephen Hawking, black hole theorist, honored at celebrity-filled gala in NY

Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala

American, Israeli biochemists win Spanish Asturias prize for their work on pain

American, Israeli biochemists win Asturias prize

American John Tate accepts Norway’s Abel mathematics prize for life’s work on number theory

American accepts Abel Prize for mathematics

Terracotta Warriors archaeological team wins Spanish Prince of Asturias award

Terracotta Warriors archaeological team wins prize

3 Europeans cited for inventions on cells, microprocessors in euro1 million technology prize

3 finalists in prize for technology breakthroughs

3 European scientists named finalists in €1 million technology prize awarded by Finland

3 finalists in international technology prize

Raytheon awarded 1-year extension on National Science Foundation contract in the Antarctic

Raytheon gets extension on Antarctic contract

Britain’s Brown hosts Germany’s Merkel, both agree on need for new sanctions against Iran

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Genetic researchers share $500,000 prize for medicine and biomedical research

Genetic researchers win $500K US medical prize

Genetic researchers share $500,000 prize for medicine and biomedical research, richest in US

US genetic researchers win $500K US medical prize

Elizabeth Banks helps the Oscars honor the nerds of filmmaking at Sci-Tech ceremony

Motion picture academy honors nerds of filmmaking

7 American, European scientists win Israel’s prestigious 2010 Wolf Prize

7 US, European scientists win Israel’s Wolf Prize

Saving face: Snowboarder Shaun White feels better than he thought he would day after accident

Snowboarder White feeling better than expected

Obama invites struggling families, wounded soldiers to hear the State of the Union

President Barack Obama

Austrian-born American Walter Munk wins 2010 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences

American scientist wins geoscience prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences has awarded American scientist Walter Munk the 2010 Crafoord Prize in Geosciences for his research on ocean circulation.

Rights group criticizes UNESCO partnering with Equatorial Guinea’s dictator

Group blasts UNESCO over Equatorial Guinea link

Ill. Supreme Court delays rule on constitutionality of medical malpractice award caps

Ill. high court delays rule on medical malpractice

Illinois Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of medical malpractice award caps

Ill. high court could rule on medical malpractice

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