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BBC News
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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.
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CNN
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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BBC News
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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.
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BBC News
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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BBC News
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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..
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MSNBC
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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...
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