News tagged with nobel prize
Related topics: graphene , carbon atoms
Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009
(AP) -- A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes on Thursday, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading.
Dec 10, 2009 |
1 / 5 (1) |
0
Nobel winners helped by independence, coffee
(AP) -- Intellectual freedom, independent research and frequent coffee breaks with colleagues helped this year's Nobel Prize winners make their groundbreaking scientific discoveries.
Dec 07, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (12) |
1
Long-term physical activity has an anti-aging effect at the cellular level
Intensive exercise prevented shortening of telomeres, a protective effect against aging of the cardiovascular system, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Nov 30, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
0
Cancers' sweet tooth may be weakness
The pedal-to-the-metal signals driving the growth of several types of cancer cells lead to a common switch governing the use of glucose, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have discovered.
Nov 18, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Explained: RNA interference
Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...
Nov 12, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
0
Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
1
Inventing language
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award — frequently ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
What computer science can teach economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists have spent decades developing techniques for answering a single question: How long does a given calculation take to perform? Constantinos Daskalakis, an assistant professor ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
0
Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93
Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.
Nov 09, 2009 |
4.4 / 5 (7) |
0
Scientists Build First 'Frequency Comb' To Display Visible 'Teeth'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Finally, an optical frequency comb that visibly lives up to its name. Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (18) |
0
The Nobel Prize and Pond Scum as a 'Model' Organism
A man is a man and a mouse is a mouse, but if you talk to a few biomedical scientists about their research, at least one is likely to spring the term “mouse model” on you.
Oct 15, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
0
Scientists visualize assembly line gears in ribosomes, cell's protein factory
Even as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognized with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work.
Oct 15, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (4) |
0
Stretching the Golgi: a link between form and function
A research team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has provided a surprisingly simple explanation for the mechanism and features of the "Golgi apparatus" - a structure that has baffled ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (18) |
0
US Nobel sweep points to brain drain
Cash-rich US researchers have again dominated this year's Nobel awards, but it seems identifying the nationality of laureates is not an exact science, and change may be on the way.
Oct 13, 2009 |
4 / 5 (5) |
1
