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Turkish scientist Bilge Demirköz has been named as one of this year's 15 female recipients of the International Rising Talent grants, awarded annually as part of the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science program. 

Reports have claimed on Thursday that Brad Pitt is being investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department and Department of Child and Family Services for alleged child abuse, but the LAPD told  they aren’t investigating Pitt.

John Sibthorp was only 24 when he was appointed Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford at the end of the 18th century. An ambitious scientist who wished to leave his mark in the field of botany, Sibthorp decided to travel to Greece in order to study Europe's "last unexplored plants."

If, in this country, we could convert the energy we spend on absurd discussions to, for instance, electricity, most probably we would not have the need for Russia to build a nuclear power plant for us. 

The debates that erupted with Aziz Sancar?s sharing the Nobel Chemistry Prize this year are all in this category. We have been talking ridiculous nationalism for two days.