Chemistry
High-Energy Award: Lithium Batteries Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The power packs drive mobile phones, laptops, electric cars and solar panels
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Chemistry
Revolution in Evolution Wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Three scientists sped up evolutionary changes in the lab to make cleaner fuels and cancer drugs
جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء تكلل أبحاث تصوير البروتينات في أثناء عملها
طوَّر ثلاثة علماء أساليب مجهرية تستخدم الإلكترونات والبرودة للكشف عن التفاصيل الدقيقة لآلية الحياة.
Chemistry
Nobel Chemistry Prize Won for Capturing Proteins in Action
Three scientists developed microscope methods that use electrons and cold temperature to reveal tiny details of life’s machinery
The Sciences
The Pigeon, the Antenna and Me: Robert Wilson
Radioastronomer Robert Wilson recalls a pair of pigeons who almost thwarted the discovery of cosmic background radiation. Wilson’s discovery—“the echo of the big bang”—earned him a share of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics...
Mind & Brain
Glittering Nobel Gown Represents Scientist's Work
Women in the public eye are constantly scrutinized for what they wear, whether it be a politician, a Hollywood starlet or even a scientist at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
Nobel Prize Lectures in Physiology or Medicine Today
Today, be sure to catch the 2014 Nobel Prize lectures in Physiology or Medicine taking place at Aula Medica at Karolinska Institutet in Solna, Sweden at 13:00 Sunday 7 December.
Biotech
Movies Made Inside a Living Cell
A new microscope can show chromosomes moving within a cell or tiny changes in a growing embryo.
Space & Physics
What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize Through Airport Security
Nine scientists became new Nobel Laureates this week when the 2014 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics and Physiology or Medicine were announced.
Ciencia
La capacidad de ver una molécula obtiene el Nobel de Química
Stefan W. Hell y Eric Betzig con William E. Moerner comparten el premio por aumentar el poder de la microscopía de luz.
The Sciences
Ability To See Single Molecules Gets Chemistry Nobel
Stefan W. Hell, Eric Betzig, and William Moerner share the prize for developing new ways to see inside a cell.
The Practical Blue LED
As you may have heard, the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 is awarded to a trio of Japanese scientists. Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." There are, of course, [...]..
The Sciences
From the Archives: Nobel Prize Winners on How the Body Works
Nobel Prize winners have published 245 articles in the pages of Scientific American . Here we present excerpts from stories in our archives that highlighted new insights into how the body functions. ...
Space & Physics
Smart Luck: How the Big Bang Was Found by Accident [Slide Show]
Two astronomers recall almost mistaking light from the big bang for pigeon droppings
The Search for a Nobel Prize-Winning Synapse Machine
2013s Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine honors three researchers in particular – but what it really honors is thirty-plus years of work not only from them, but also from their labs, their graduate students and their collaborators...
The Higgs Boson Walks Into a Church…
In honor of Peter Higgs and Francois Englert being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics 48 years after they predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, here’s all I have to say on the matter: To see the joke in action/context, here’s a stand up routine of mine that’s been online since 2009...
The Fingerprints the Higgs Leaves Behind
Tomorrow, the Nobel prize in physics will most likely be awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert. Along with other researchers, the two physicists are credited with the 1964 introduction of the then-theoretical Higgs field—a fluid that permeates every corner of the universe and gives each particle a distinct mass...
In surprise advance announcement, 2013 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Higgs boson
In a stunning and premature decision that is a first in the 113 year history of the august institution, the Nobel Prize Committee in Stockholm today announced the awarding of the 2013 Nobel prize for Physics to the Higgs Boson...
