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Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000
Immigration Has Shaped the Lives and Careers of 30 Percent of Recent Nobel Prize Scientists By Jenna Ahart & Nature magazine Omar Yaghi with molecular models of some of his porous structures, called metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. COFs have similar internal structures, but are held together by strong covalent bonds instead of by metal atoms.…
Nobel Prize winner Machado says Venezuela is in ‘chaos’ under current regime
By Alana Wise Venezuela opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado said in an interview with NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday that her country is in chaos and called for the removal of Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro. Speaking while still in hiding within Venezuela’s borders, the far-right leader decried Maduro as an…
Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’ The Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won the Nobel peace prize for her dogged struggle to rescue the South American country from its fate as “a brutal, authoritarian state”. Machado, 58, a conservative often described as Venezuela’s Iron Lady,…
2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who Brought Quantum Mechanics into the Macroscale World
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who Showed Quantum Tunneling on a Chip John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world By Lee Billings edited by Dan Vergano The…
2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Discoveries Key to Treating Autoimmune Disease
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune diseases By Lauren J. Young edited by Tanya Lewis This story has been updated. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi jointly won…
2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on Tipsy Bats and Pasta Physics
Tipsy Bats and Perfect Pasta Win Ig Nobel Prizes for Weird Science Research Winners of the annual Ig Nobel awards include the science of tipsy bats and the physics of cacio e pepe By Chris Simms & Nature magazine Physicists studied the phase transitions that occur while making the pasta dish cacio e pepe. Many…
Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize–Winning Work on mRNA Was Long Ignored—And Led to COVID Vaccines
Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize–Winning Work on mRNA Was Long Ignored—And Led to COVID Vaccines Despite decades of doubt and dismissal, biochemist Katalin Karikó never gave up on the research that gave us mRNA COVID vaccines in record time By Katie Hafner, Deborah Unger, Gabriela Saldivia & The Lost Women of Science Initiative Katalin Karikó, a…
The peanut farmer who rose to US president and Nobel prize winner
Jimmy Carter, who has died at the age of 100, swept to power promising never to lie to the American people. In the turbulent aftermath of Watergate, the former peanut farmer from Georgia pardoned Vietnam draft evaders and became the first US leader to take climate change seriously. On the international stage, he helped to…
This Year’s Nobel Prizes Are a Warning about AI
Opinion This Year’s Nobel Prizes Are a Warning about AI Unless we pursue AI carefully, the Nobel committee will one day give a Peace Prize to the people cleaning up its terrible consequences, just as it did with nuclear physics By Y Cooper A man wheels his bicycle thorough Hiroshima, Japan, days after the city…