Samuel Case, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for works exploring family and childhood in an “unmistakable…voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” the Swedish Academy said. Born in New York, Gluck becomes the 16th woman to win the literary world’s most prestigious distinction since the […]
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed a Clinton administration-era policy that required major U.S. sources of hazardous air pollution like arsenic and lead to maintain pollution control technology throughout the lifetime of their operation, enabling them to meet less stringent standards.
[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine for identifying the Hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped to limit the spread of the fatal disease and develop antiviral drugs to cure it. The discoveries by scientists Harvey Alter, Charles Rice and Michael Houghton meant there […]
