India From Space On Diwali

A picture of India on Diwali, taken from space by 'NASA', has by now become a standing joke. The Photoshopped picture was circulated year after year - but people are wise to it now. So what does India actually look like from space on Diwali - the festival of lights? Thanks to astronaut Paolo Nespoli, we now have an answer. On October 19, the 60-year-old Italian astronaut shared a photo of India, taken from space.

Nobel Prize in Eonomics 2017

American Richard H. Thaler wins Nobel Prize in economics.An American professor won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into why people make bad decisions.Economics is built on the assumption that people make rational decisions based on the desire to increase their economic well-being. While economists have long known that isn't strictly true, Thaler was a pioneer in studying why people sometimes make irrational decisions, and how they can be encouraged to make smarter ones. "He's made economics more human," said Peter Gärdenfors, a member of the committee that awarded the prize. Thaler, 72, of the University of Chicago, told the press that the most important value of his work was the understanding that "in order to do good economics, you have to keep in mind that people are human."

Nobel Peace Prize 2017

ICAN Has Been Awarded 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.“The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons,” a statement from the Nobel Prize Committee said.

Nobel Prize in literature 2017

Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-born British Author, Wins Nobel Literature Prize.Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of "The Remains of the Day", won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of "exquisite" novels that the award body said mixed Franz Kafka with Jane Austen.

Nobel Prize in chemistry 2017

Scientists awarded Nobel prize in chemistry for work to visualize biomolecules.Nobel Prize in Chemistry Won by Three Scientists For Biochemistry 'Revolution'. Dubochet, affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Frank with Columbia University in New York and Henderson with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Britain, have made ground-breaking discoveries that have enabled the development of cryo-electron microscopy

Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

US Trio Win Nobel Prize in Physics for Finding Einstein's Gravitational Waves. The work of Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne crowned half a century of experimental efforts by scientists and engineers. Measuring gravitational waves offers a new way to observe the cosmos, helping scientists explore the nature of mysterious objects including black holes and neutron stars.

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2017

Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 3 Americans For Insights Into Body's Biological Clock. The citation for the 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize says the researchers - Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michal W. Young- isolated a gene that controls the normal daily biological rhythm.