Enlarge / Proline is a common amino acid. It’s also an effective catalyst. (credit: Wikimedia Commons ) Platinum is a ferociously expensive metal that is difficult to obtain and purify. Most of the small supply we produce every year isn’t put to use for its properties as a metal. Instead, it’s used as a catalyst […]
Enlarge / The output of a modern climate model allows us to detect trends despite the chaotic nature of the underlying system. (credit: NOAA ) Complex behavior is all around us. Think of something like the economy. It has lots of components, each with its own set of rules and all of them interacting in […]
Enlarge / The protein that allows us to sense touch is big and complicated. (credit: PDB) Today’s Nobel Prize is in Physiology or Medicine, which often means biology these days. And 2021 is not an exception, as two researchers have won for their discoveries regarding how humans detect their immediate environment through the sense of […]
Bill and Melinda Gates have attempted to keep their divorce as low-key as possible for two of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world. But will they continue to be successful? Somehow we doubt it… As we previously reported, the ultra-expensive split is shaping up to be mostly drama-free in the division of […]
Expand / Emmanuelle Charpentier reminds everyone about penalizing safety at the beginning of a press conference after the announcement of her Nobel Prize. (charge: Pictures Alliance/Getty Pictures ) On Wednesdaythe Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Chemistry Nobel into Emmanuelle Charpentier along with Jennifer Doudna, that made crucial contributions to the growth of the CRISPR gene-editing […]
Expand / This picture of a bust of Alfred Nobel was shot just before the announcement of the winners of this 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 5, 2020. (charge: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / / Getty Images) The very first known human cases of COVID-19 happened […]