en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/science/prize/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/science/bionic_hand_wins_top_tech_prize/ The world's most advanced, commercially available, bionic hand has clinched the UK's top engineering prize. The i-LIMB, a prosthetic device with five individually powered digits, beat three other finalists to win this year's MacRobert award. The tec news science 2008-06-11 08:24:12 http://www.newsique.com/science/bionic_hand_wins_top_tech_prize/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7443866.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [6] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/bionic_hand_wins_top_tech_prize/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/gore_un_scientist_accept_nobel_p/ Al Gore and the U.N. climate panel's chief scientist accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it. Gore shared the coveted award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli news science 2007-12-10 08:12:24 http://www.newsique.com/science/gore_un_scientist_accept_nobel_p/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/10/gore.nobel.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/gore_un_scientist_accept_nobel_p/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/honour_for_biomaterials_pioneer/ One of the most prolific inventors in medicine has won the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize. Professor Robert Langer's biomaterials research has allowed for more accurate and controlled release of drugs into patients' bodies. His work has had news science 2008-06-12 08:18:35 http://www.newsique.com/science/honour_for_biomaterials_pioneer/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7448215.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/honour_for_biomaterials_pioneer/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/singer_shines_light_on_sanitatio/ A Mozambican musician who campaigns for clean water and sanitation has been awarded a top environmental prize. Feliciano dos Santos won a Goldman Environmental Prize for using his music star status to raise awareness about health, water and HIV/Aids is news science 2008-04-14 08:18:09 http://www.newsique.com/science/singer_shines_light_on_sanitatio/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7342789.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/singer_shines_light_on_sanitatio/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/innovators_shortlisted_for_award/ The creator of DNA fingerprinting heads the shortlist for the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize. Professor Alec Jeffreys is joined by Prof David Payne, co-inventor of an optical amplifier which transformed telecommunications, on the list. Prof news science 2008-04-09 08:23:25 http://www.newsique.com/science/innovators_shortlisted_for_award/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7336140.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/innovators_shortlisted_for_award/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/surface_chemistry_awarded_nobel/ German scientist Gerhard Ertl has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his studies of processes on solid surfaces. His work has enhanced areas as diverse as the process used to make fertiliser, the production of catalytic converters and news science 2007-10-10 08:18:16 http://www.newsique.com/science/surface_chemistry_awarded_nobel/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7037210.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/surface_chemistry_awarded_nobel/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/apathy_halts_nobel_winners_talk/ A day after he was awarded the Nobel Prize, a talk on stem cell research by Sir Martin Evans has been cancelled because of a "lack of interest". The event, due to be held at Cardiff's Techniquest, was organised before he was awarded the 2007 Nobel Priz news science 2007-10-10 08:18:16 http://www.newsique.com/science/apathy_halts_nobel_winners_talk/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7036435.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/apathy_halts_nobel_winners_talk/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/happiness_wins_science_book_priz/ A scientific exploration of the various ways people attempt to make themselves happy has won the annual Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness had been tipped as the favourite to win the prestigious �10,000 awa news science 2007-05-15 23:20:26 http://www.newsique.com/science/happiness_wins_science_book_priz/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6657843.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/happiness_wins_science_book_priz/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/1_million_prize_awarded_for_wate/ A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize — and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world. news science 2007-02-05 11:17:00 http://www.newsique.com/science/1_million_prize_awarded_for_wate/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16947780/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Interesting [4] 100 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/1_million_prize_awarded_for_wate/#comments