Nobel Awarded for Harnessing Light
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber optics and digital photography. Half of the $1.4 million prize went to Charles K. Kao for insights in the mid-1960s about how to get light to travel long [...]
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for solving ribosome riddle
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for solving ribosome riddle | Reuters Three scientists who produced an atom-by-atom map of the mysterious, life-giving ribosome won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday, a breakthrough that has been vital for the development of new antibiotics. While DNA molecules contain the blueprint for life inside each cell of every [...]
