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A 1989 Nobel Prize-winning discovery revealed RNA could perform chemistry, not just carry instructions. That breakthrough now enables mRNA vaccines, CRISPR gene editing, and treatments for diseases once thought incurable.
Katharine Burr Blodgett created nonreflecting glass in 1938, transforming everything from eyeglasses to cameras. The woman who worked alongside a Nobel Prize winner finally stepped into the spotlight with a discovery that still shapes our world today.
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist who grew up without running water invented a device that creates up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water daily from thin air. The shipping container-sized units need no electricity and could help hurricane-hit Caribbean islands and drought-stricken communities worldwide.
A French-American economist just became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for proving that small, tested interventions can lift millions out of poverty. Her work transforms how the world fights poverty, one experiment at a time.
When asked if he feels overshadowed by Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, her brother Khushal gave an answer that's touching hearts worldwide. His message about uplifting the people you love is a reminder we all need.
A telescope launched in 1989 proved how the universe began and revealed the cosmic seeds that made galaxies, stars, and us possible. The discovery was so groundbreaking it earned a Nobel Prize and launched the era of precision cosmology.
A London lab just unveiled AI that predicts how drugs work in the body with breakthrough accuracy, potentially speeding up how we discover new medicines. Scientists are calling it a major leap forward, comparing it to the next generation of Nobel Prize-winning technology.
Ashoke Sen won nearly three times the Nobel Prize and chose to keep riding his bicycle instead of buying a luxury car. The Kolkata-born physicist transformed modern physics, returned to India, and gave most of his prize money away.
Researchers just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, an AI tool that maps protein structures in seconds instead of years. The breakthrough shows how human creativity and artificial intelligence are teaming up to accelerate life-saving drug discoveries.
John Martinis, the Nobel laureate who helped Google achieve quantum supremacy, is launching a startup to build truly practical quantum computers. His new company QoLab promises a radically different approach that could finally make quantum computing reliable and affordable.
Nobel laureates agree artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how we discover drugs and predict weather, but the human mind still leads breakthrough science. The world's top scientists gathered to explore AI's promise and its surprising limitations.
Amateur radio enthusiasts are launching tiny balloons that circle the stratosphere for months, tracking them worldwide for less than $100. A Nobel Prize winner's technology makes it possible to follow these pico balloons as they travel the globe without satellites.
A scientist who just won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry invented ultra-porous materials that can pull drinking water from desert air and capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Omar Yaghi believes these "sponge-like" crystals could define humanity's next era.
The 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry went to artificial intelligence pioneers, marking the first time AI research earned science's highest honor. Their breakthroughs are already speeding up drug discovery and solving problems that stumped scientists for 50 years.
Thomas Edison's 1879 light bulb experiments likely produced graphene, a Nobel Prize-winning material that wouldn't be officially discovered for another 125 years. Rice University scientists recreated his work and found the inventor accidentally created one of the 21st century's most important materials.
Stockholm transforms into a celebration of scientific discovery each December, with millions tuning in to honor breakthroughs in quantum computing, climate tech, and medicine. The week-long festival proves that science can still captivate entire societies when we choose to celebrate it.
A Palestinian refugee who grew up getting fresh water once a week just won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing materials that could help solve the climate crisis. Dr. Omar Yaghi turned childhood hardship into breakthrough science that pulls water from desert air and captures carbon.