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During the summer of 2020, the composer and lyricist Madeline Myers spent hours at the piano in her Manhattan apartment as she struggled to write three songs for her new musical, Double Helix, about the British chemist Rosalind Franklin.The challenge wasn't strictly about marrying words to a score, but conveying the science of a crucial moment in the discovery of DNA's structure and making the songs entertaining.

Chief Standing Bear, whose 1879 lawsuit and celebrated I Am a Man courtroom speech led to the recognition of Native American legal rights, was honored on Friday with a Forever stamp featuring his portrait.A leader of the small Ponca tribe in northeastern Nebraska, Chief Standing Bear successfully fought in court for Native Americans to be considered persons in the United States with the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as other Americans and not as wards of the government.

Origins of Generative AI and Natural Language Processing with ChatGPT Auto-GPT Unmasked: The Hype and Hard Truths of its Production Pitfalls Joining in on the fun of using generative AI, we used ChatGPT to help us explore some of the key innovations over the past 50 years of AI.Databases for the Era of Artificial Intelligence Auto-GPT: A groundbreaking project or just another overhyped AI experiment?

The windows of Milan's Pirelli tower are illuminated to commemorate World AIDS Day in December 2017
Paris (AFP) - Forty years after the discovery of HIV, AFP looks at how far we have come in fighting a deadly virus that was once shrouded in fear and shame but is now treated as a manageable chronic condition.

Dubravka Ugresic, a novelist and essayist who, after her native Yugoslavia broke apart in the early 1990s, found herself ostracized in the new country of Croatia for refusing to embrace its aggressive nationalism and spent the rest of her life abroad, died on March 17 in Amsterdam.She was 73.Petar Milat, her principal editor and publisher in Croatia, confirmed the death.

The solitary denizens of Macondo appear to have proved too much for a famously insane knight errant, according to research that shows Gabriel Garcia Marquez has overtaken Miguel de Cervantes to become the most translated Spanish-language writer of the century so far.However, the genius who gave the world Don Quixote and with him the first modern novel and a byword for impractical idealism can take comfort in the fact that he remains the most translated writer in Spanish over the past eight decades.

Picture this: You're America's preeminent power couple, and you have a couple hundred million dollars burning a hole in your pocket(s).What do you do with the money?One possible answer, according to recent TMZ reports, is buy the most expensive home in California history.Neilson Barnard/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank
Beyonce and Jay-Z - with a net worth well into the billions, and famous enough that I don't need to identify their professions - reportedly paid $200 million... in cash... for a 30,000-square-foot Malibu mansion.

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Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW.He covers European tech, with a focus on deeptech, startups, and government policy.Every tech baron worth their Patagonia vest is talking about AGI these days - albeit with mixed feelings.Some await our robot overlords with rapturous excitement; others anticipate a digital apocalypse.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.Scientists have created mice with two biologically male parents for the first time a significant milestone in reproductive biology.The team, led by Katsuhiko Hayashi, a professor of genome biology at Osaka University in Japan, generated eggs from the skin cells of male mice that, when implanted in female mice, went on to produce healthy pups, according to research published March 15 in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Gordon Moore, the legendary Intel Corp. co-founder who predicted the growth of the semiconductor industry, smiles during a news conference in 2001.Ben Margot/AP SAN FRANCISCO Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died.

Russian police searched several apartments belonging to former employees of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Memorial on Tuesday.The human rights group said some of the former employees were also apprehended for questioning.One opposition party condemned the move as an assault on dissent.Memorial, one of Russia's most renowned rights groups, was founded in 1987 to document cases of political repression in the Soviet Union.

Every year, when readers and bookies begin asking who is likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese novelist Yan Lianke appears in the conversation.In 2022, the British gambling aggregator NicerOdds gave him a 25-to-1 chance, the same as Edna O'Brien, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Scholastique Mukasonga though lower than Annie Ernaux, who won.

The Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb, aka Belgian author Amélie Nothomb, isn't quite Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates-level prolific, but she comes pretty close.Since the Francophone Belgian writer published her first novel in 1992, at the age of twenty-six, she has published about a book a year, including her new book, First Blood, which Frenchly review this week.

Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature.An exhibition at Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, commemorates the 30th anniversary of her win.Morrison is pictured above in Paris in November 2010.Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images Walking into Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory, a new exhibition curated from the late author's archives at Princeton University, is an emotional experience for anyone who loves literature.

International human rights experts denounce witch hunt' against Nobel Prize-winning group Memorial on Tuesday.Russian security forces have raided the homes of former employees of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial on Tuesday, taking some of its members in for questioning, the group said.

Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Kenzaburo Oe poses in March 2012 during the inauguration of the 32nd Paris Book Fair, which focused on Japanese writers.Jacques Brinon/AP TOKYO Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died.

Jessica Hodgson, a graduate student at the University of Leicester, was poring over a medieval manuscript in the Bodleian Libraries' collection at the University of Oxford when she spotted a faint etched inscription on one of the pages.It seemed to spell out the name "Eadburg," but the etching was too faint for full confirmation.

A study published February 9 declared a third person free of HIV after receiving a specific type of bone marrow, or stem cell, transplant.The 53-year-old man, who researchers are calling the "Dusseldorf" patient, received the treatment in 2013 and has been monitored since.Like the two others known as the "Berlin" and "London" patients, respectively the man was positive for Type 1 HIV (HIV-1) and received a specific type of stem cell transplant to help treat a cancer diagnosis.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Studio Libeskind's design for a contemporary extension to the iconic Boerentoren tower in Antwerp, Belgium.Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind's studio has designed an extension to the 90-year-old tower, which was once Europe's tallest high-rise, as part of a plan to preserve its architectural heritage while transforming it into a cultural institution.

TOKYO - A new Haruki Murakami novel will be published in April and the publisher is saying little about it except that the Japanese manuscript is around 1,200 pages and the plot involves "a story that had long been sealed."Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Movies As a kid, Kazuo Ishiguro saw Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film Ikiru."It made a terrific impact on me," the Nobel prize-winner recalls.His film Living is nominated for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.Copyright 2023 NPR.All rights reserved.Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A MasterChef judge and a Nobel Prize winner are due to receive honours at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.Celebrity chef John Torode will be made an MBE for his services to food and charity, while Professor Sir David MacMillan will receive his knighthood for services to chemistry and science.

The Nobel Prize ceremony kicks off Saturday in the Swedish and Norwegian capitals after a two-year disruption due to the pandemic.The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is being held at Oslo's City Hall at 1 p.m. local time (1200 GMT), with the conflict in Ukraine at the heart of this year's prizes.Meanwhile, the Swedish capital Stockholm is hosting a separate awards ceremony for the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics.

Should singers be able to sing?- Laura Turner, Parmiter's School (Image: https://pixabay.com/)On the 28th October, two of my brothers were in attendance for Bob Dylan's concert in Nottingham.Dylan's voice is a hot topic within my family, and this performance allowed the debate to resurface again, prompting me to wonder why it is that his voice is so detested.

PARIS  Thousands of protesters, including France's newly crowned Nobel literature laureate, piled into the streets of Paris on Sunday, in a show of anger against the bite of rising prices and cranking up pressure on the government of President Emmanuel Macron.Organizers called it a march against the high cost of living and climate inaction.

Thousands of protesters, including France's newly crowned Nobel literature laureate, piled into the streets of Paris on Sunday, in a show of anger against the bite of rising prices and cranking up pressure on the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
he march for wage increases and other demands was organised by left-wing opponents of Mr Macron and lit the fuse on what promises to be an uncomfortable week for his centrist government.