Research by Weizmann Institute scientist and Israel Prize winner saved 'countless lives,' was basis for technology sold for ...

Prominent Republicans from Vice President JD Vance to Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri have floated policies aimed not just at boosting birth rates, a key conservative goal in recent years, but also ...

In 2023, Claudia Goldin (New York, 78 years old) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in recognition of her studies on the underrepresentation of women in the labor market and on the gender wage gap, ...

For instance, Sir Andre Geim, who won an Ig Nobel in 2000 for “levitating a frog” using magnets, also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his groundbreaking work on graphene. To date, he is the ...

In an elegant ceremony Dec. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden, immunologist Drew Weissman ’81, GSAS MA’81, P’15, H’23, and his research partner Katalin Karikó, H’23, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for ...

Now, usually in these episodes, we’re talking about a cover story, but in this episode, we’re actually looking at our stories on some of the 2023 Nobel Prizes and going behind the scenes on ...

Listen to this story T he Nobel prize for medicine, awarded on October 2nd to Katalin Karikó, a biochemist, and Drew Weissman, an immunologist, is a fitting capstone to a great underdog story.

Drew Weissman ’81, GSAS MA’81, P’15, H’23, whose pioneering work in messenger RNA led to the lifesaving vaccinations that altered the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, has won the Nobel Prize in ...

The trick was in adding long fatty acid chains that grabbed onto albumin — the most abundant protein found in the blood — allowing the GLP-1 lookalike to hide from enzymes that would chop it up.

So I pulled out every trick I had, in terms of performance, comedy, every high school drama class that I had taken, to really help me win that that challenge,” Kanik said. But it all paid off.

When Giorgio Parisi was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics alongside Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, news reporters faced a challenge. How the heck were they supposed to understand, let ...

FILE - Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitry Muratov from Russia, right, and Maria Ressa of the Philippines embrace during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall, Norway, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021.