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We Spoke to Journalist Maria Ressa After Her Nobel Peace Prize Win
"Being fearless doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid. It just means you know how to handle your fear."
The Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist Who Pioneered Gene Editing
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, who discovered CRISPR’s gene-editing power, wants the technology to be standard of care for severe genetic diseases.
The Lawyer Working to Dismantle the World’s Nuclear Weapons
Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, dreams of a world free from the threat of nuclear war.
She Was Separated From Her Twin. Now She's on a Mission to Separate Others
Larissa Gonçalves is now 21 and determined to become a surgeon specializing in conjoined twins.
Scientists Detect Waves in Spacetime From Biggest Known Neutron Star Collision
“Neutron star binaries this massive may not be detectable by current telescope surveys.”
Physicist Wins $3 Million Prize for Discovering Pulsars, Donates it All to Promoting Diversity in STEM
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell says she has battled “imposter syndrome” at many points in her career as a physicist.
Recent Nobel Prize Winner Is 'Profoundly Sorry' for 'Degrading' Video of Women
2018 Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou made a music video where female dancers tear off their lab coats.
Donna Strickland Wins Nobel Prize for Pioneering Work That Led to Development of Laser Tools
Strickland and Gérard Mourou discovered a way to stretch and amplify laser beams in the 1980s.
For the First Time in 55 Years, a Woman Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics
Dr. Donna Strickland, a self-described "laser jock," is the third woman to ever win a Nobel Prize in physics, following in the footsteps of Marie Curie.
The 2018 Ig Nobels Honor Discoveries About Cannibalism, Voodoo, and DIY Colonoscopies
The annual parody of the Nobel Prize also celebrated studies about human saliva as a cleaning agent, the effect of roller-coasters of kidney stones, and the use of postage stamps as erection detectors.
In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Observe Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks
After years of attempts, the particle’s most common decay pattern has finally been observed at the Large Hadron Collider.
Australian Mathematician Wins the Nobel Prize for Maths
He's only the second Australian to win the prestigious award.