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At the Economist conference in Athens, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu received the thrilling news of his Nobel win. As shared by Professor Kostas Synolakis, a prominent academic in the field of Natural Disasters, Acemoglu found out about his prize during the conference and handled the moment with remarkable humility.

Synolakis described the event in detail:

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.

The support extended to Israel during the Gaza war has sparked widespread protests across U.S. universities, underscoring both the potency of student activism in influencing Washington's actions and its symbolic resonance in aligning with "the right side of history," Turkish students in the U.S. have expressed.

Israel's relentless bombardments in Gaza for nearly three months destroyed 70 percent of the houses in the besieged strip, leaving nearly 1.5 million people homeless, the Hamas-run government's media office has revealed.

How would you feel about litigation with parties representing animals, or banning industrial animal husbandry in favor of less brutal forms of producing meat, such as growing it in a lab?

In the modern capitalist world, behaviors and decisions are shaped through external influences created by the architecture of the environment in which we interact.

When both Moscow and Kyiv begin to believe that they will no longer be able to achieve a better result on the battlefield, the leaders of Ukraine and Russia, wherever they are, will have to meet and agree on a mutually acceptable solution, which will make both sides feel better than continuing the war.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it, as scientists who petition federal agencies like NASA and the Department of Energy for research funds know all too well. The price of big-ticket instruments like a space telescope or particle accelerator can be as high as $10 billion.

And so this past June the physics community began to consider what it wants to do next, and why.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said tensions with China had eased, but expressed concern about Beijing's intentions on Taiwan.

The Nobel Economics Prize was on Monday awarded to a US trio for their contributions on explaining the role of banks in the economy.