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Car Capable of 102 MPG Awarded $5 Million Prize The three winners of the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, a contest to inspire the development of highly efficient, production-ready vehicles, have been selected. The biggest winner, awarded $5 million of the prize, was Edison2, which developed a four-person sedan that weighs less than 1,000 pounds, is powered by an internal combustion engine, and can get 102 miles ...
Russian Mathematician Turns Down $1 Million Prize The reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman has rejected a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for solving the Poincaré conjecture, one of the world's most intractable mathematical problems. His decision came as little surprise to some, as he has a history of declining prizes. In 2006, Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal, the mathematics world's ...
Nobel Winner Died Days before Award Announcement When the Nobel Prize committee announced Monday that Ralph Steinman was one of the winners of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, it did not know that he had lost his battle with pancreatic cancer days earlier. He had been selected for his "discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity," findings which he had ...
Oil Cleanup Crew Feeling Health Effects For days, doctors near the Gulf oil spill have been seeing patients complaining of similar symptoms: respiratory problems, headaches, and nausea. Many are workers who have been out on the water cleaning up oil. Though few studies have examined the long-term health effects of oil exposure, the reports of these flu-like symptoms bear a close similarity to complaints from crew ...
Gulf Spill Altering Marine Food Web Scientists say the multibillion-dollar fishing industry in the area of the Gulf oil spill could be in grave danger, as they are already seeing early signs that the spill is altering the marine food web by killing or tainting some creatures and promoting the growth of those more suited to the polluted waters. There has been a massive die-off of ...