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It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
The world’s “most produced living playwright” wins out over other contestants, including Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood.
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
An interview with CRISPR co-discoverer and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
Not every classic enjoyed rave reviews from the start.
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they're doing.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
CRISPR’s gene drive can defy evolution. Here’s how, explained by Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna.
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A two-dimensional material made entirely of carbon called graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. Graphyne might be even better.
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
1700s economic principles predicted Uber. A Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why.
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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
Because Dylan “samples and digests” songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But imitatio isn't the same.
Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
Despite being called the "dismal science," economics impacts our lives every day. Here, we look at seven of the greatest economists in history.