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'Harry Potter' materials land three scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry
By Patrick Pester last updated
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal–organic frameworks."

Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists who discovered bizarre quantum effect on large scales
By Patrick Pester published
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."

Nobel Prize in Physics: 1901-Present
By Live Science Staff last updated
An artist's illustration of an artificial neural network.

Nobel Prize in medicine goes to trio for their work on immune tolerance
By Patrick Pester published
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how our immune system is prevented from attacking our organs.

2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists who revealed a 'completely new world of protein structures'
By Victoria Atkinson published
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper shared the Nobel prize in chemistry for work that revolutionized our understanding of protein structure.

'It will be comparable with the industrial revolution': Two legendary AI scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for work on neural networks
By Ben Turner published
The researchers developed algorithms and neural networks that set the stage for today's AI technologies

2 scientists snag Nobel in medicine for discovering 'microRNAs'
By Emily Cooke published
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun jointly received the 2024 Nobel prize in medicine for discovering microRNAs.

World's fastest microscope can see electrons moving
By Ben Turner published
Scientists have created the world's fastest microscope, which they hope will answer fundamental questions about how electrons behave.

32 important scientists you've probably never heard of
By Tom Metcalfe published
These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine.

Google Doodle honors César Lattes, Brazilian physicist who discovered a long-sought particle hidden in cosmic rays
By Ben Turner published
The physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding stars.
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