Tag: nobel prize
MicroRNA is the Nobel-winning master regulator of the genome – researchers...
Andrea Kasinski, Purdue University
When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered a new molecule they called microRNA in the...
Quantum dots are part of a revolution in engineering atoms in...
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
The 2023 Nobel Prize for chemistry isn’t the first Nobel awarded for research in...
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh...
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University, and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
Each October, the...
Visualizing the inside of cells at previously impossible resolutions provides vivid...
Jeremy Berg, University of Pittsburgh
All life is made up of cells several magnitudes smaller than a grain of...
Nobel prizes most often go to researchers who defy specialization –...
Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University and Michele Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University
Experts often recommend that people specialize in one...
What’s next for ancient DNA studies after Nobel Prize honors groundbreaking...
Mary Prendergast, Rice University
For the first time, a Nobel Prize recognized the field of anthropology, the study of...
None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here’s...
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
Nobel Peace Prize for journalists serves as reminder that freedom of...
Kathy Kiely, University of Missouri-Columbia
Thirty-two years ago next month, I was in Germany reporting on the fall of...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
