Things to know about the Nobel Prizes
Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here......»»
Physics Nobel belies Italy"s scientific brain drain
Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi will receive a shared Nobel prize at a ceremony Monday, but behind the celebrations is consternation at the brain-drain that for years has seen many young scientists leave to work abroad......»»
Potential new gene editing tools uncovered
Few developments have rocked the biotechnology world or generated as much buzz as the discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems, a breakthrough in gene editing recognized in 2020 with a Nobel Prize. But these systems that naturally occur in bacteria are limite.....»»
UK Visa Scheme for Prize-winning Scientists Receives No Applications
Not a single scientist has applied to a UK government visa scheme for Nobel prize laureates and other award winners since its launch six months ago, New Scientist reported Tuesday. From a report: The scheme has come under criticism from scientists an.....»»
Rogue Jam Is a Brand-New Indie Game Jam Competition With $800k In Prizes
Rogue Games and IGN are partnering to produce Rogue Jam, a brand-new indie game jam judged by industry veterans including former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. Here's how to enter.IGN and Rogue Games are partnering to produce Rogue.....»»
Nobel-linked Swedish institute seeks distance from racist past
The Swedish body housing the committee that awards the Nobel Prize in medicine on Tuesday said it will rename some buildings and a street named after racialist or pro-Nazi scientists......»»
Ammonia synthesis by mechanocatalysis in a ball mill
A breakthrough in the fight against hunger, three Nobel Prizes, and 150 million tonnes of annual production—yet still a tricky topic for research: For over 100 years, the chemical industry has been using the Haber-Bosch process to convert atmospher.....»»
Facebook Accused of Tolerating Dangerous and Criminal Behavior to Preserve Profitability
A new whistleblower affidavit submitted by a former Facebook employee "alleges that the company prizes growth and profits over combating hate speech, misinformation and other threats to the public," reports the Washington Post: The SEC affidavit goe.....»»
Why the Physics Nobel Honored Climate Science and Complex Systems
The prestigious award finally recognizes work that helped scientists understand climate change and, more broadly, find order in disorder -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
2021 Medicine Nobel Prize Winner Explains the Importance of Sensing Touch
Ardem Patapoutian shared the physiology or medicine prize for work on mechanisms crucial to everything from bladder control to knowing where our limbs are -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Facet controllable synthesis of two-dimensional rare earth oxides
Since graphene was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010, two-dimensional (2D) materials have continued to attract researchers' attention in logic, storage, optoelectronic and photonic 2D device manufacturing fields because of the atomic thickness and exce.....»»
How San Diego grew into a magnet for Nobel-quality talent in science
She lived in England during the age of Dickens, taught school in Illinois as America expanded west, wrote for a scrappy newspaper in Detroit after the Civil War, and spent her latter years in San Diego sharing a fortune......»»
Why the United States dominates the Nobels
No fewer than eight of this year's 13 Nobel winners were American citizens, extending a historic trend tied to the strength of US academia and its ability to attract top world talent......»»
3 US-based economists win Nobel prize for societal research
A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers, challenging commonly held ideas. Two.....»»
Economics Prize wraps up unpredictable Nobel season
The Nobel Economics Prize on Monday wraps up a Nobel season characterised by surprising picks, with a number of women in with a chance of scooping the traditionally male-dominated prize......»»
Did Death Cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?
"Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?" asks the New York Times: When the iconic physicist died on March 14, 2018, data was already in hand that could confirm an ominous and far-reaching prediction he had made more than four decades befo.....»»
Nobel Physics Prize winner says Italy research underfunded
Italian Giorgio Parisi, winner of the 2021 Nobel Physics Prize, slammed Friday the lack of funding for research in Italy, saying it invested one of the lowest amounts in Europe......»»
Nobel Prize for groundbreaking way of building molecules that made chemistry greener
Benjamin List and David MacMillan, respectively from Germany and the US, will share the 10 million Swedish kronor (£870,000) Nobel prize in chemistry 2021 for their development of "organocatalysis"—a precise tool for constructing molecules which h.....»»
Nobel awarded for making common, cheap chemicals into catalysts
Common chemicals can often work better than pricey metal catalysts. Enlarge / Proline is a common amino acid. It's also an effective catalyst. (credit: Wikimedia Commons ) Platinum is a ferociously expensive metal that is diff.....»»
New Molecular Tool Kit Wins Chemistry Nobel
Two chemists devised a faster, cleaner and more precise way to construct drug molecules and other modern materials -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Eco-friendly drug production Nobel winner"s proudest achievement
Princeton professor David MacMillan on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for his work developing a new tool to scale up chemical reactions in an environmentally friendly way, known as "organocatalysis.".....»»