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Nobel Chemistry Prize Awarded for CRISPR ‘Genetic Scissors’
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic editing.
Physics Nobel Awarded for Black Hole Breakthroughs
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of black holes.
The Earth-Shaping Animal Migration No One Ever Sees
A closer look at one of nature’s hidden wonders.
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Environmentalism
To stop destroying nature, developers are mimicking it.
The Greening of Antarctica
Few have witnessed the impact of global warming more closely than this scientist.
Kim Stanley Robinson Holds Out Hope
The science-fiction author on why climate change doesn’t have to be humanity’s final story.
Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Discovering the Hepatitis C Virus
Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the cause of a major liver disease.
Does Social Media Poison Everything?
We have far less control over our behavior than we like to think.
