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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…