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Nobel Awarded for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Portable Power

By Jordana Cepelewicz +1 authors
John Rennie
October 9, 2019
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John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing lithium-ion batteries, “the hidden workhorses of the mobile era.”

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Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries

By Michael Moyer +1 authors
Natalie Wolchover
October 8, 2019
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The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The cosmologist James Peebles won the other half for work exploring the structure of the universe.

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Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen

By Jordana Cepelewicz
October 7, 2019
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honored William Kaelin Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their work on elucidating how cells adjust to low oxygen levels.

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Three Biochemists Win Chemistry Nobel for Directing Evolution

By John Rennie
October 3, 2018
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By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.

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Laser Physicists, Including Third Woman Ever, Win Physics Nobel

By Michael Moyer +1 authors
Natalie Wolchover
October 2, 2018
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Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.

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Nobel Prize Awarded for Cancer Immunotherapy

By John Rennie
October 1, 2018
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James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing ways to unleash the immune system more effectively against cancers.

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The Overlooked Link Between Two of This Year’s Nobel Prizes

By Veronique Greenwood
November 27, 2017
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To better understand the molecules described by the latest prize in medicine, we will need the technique recognized by the latest prize in chemistry.

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Supercool Protein Imaging Gets the Nobel Prize

By Jordana Cepelewicz +1 authors
John Rennie
October 4, 2017
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to researchers who made it possible to see proteins and other biomolecules at an atomic level of detail.

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LIGO Architects Win Nobel Prize in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
October 3, 2017
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The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.


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