The team printed a honeycomb and a Canadian maple leaf, both roughly the size of a single grain of sand.
Articles on Nobel Laureates
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In Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro summons our liberal sentiments only to turn them against us.
The 2024 Nobel prize in economics has been awarded for widely cited research on global inequality – but there are blind spots in this analysis.
Challenging oppression, advocating for justice, and inspiring social change are the hallmarks of Soyinka’s life.
The perceived “otherness” of eastern and central Europe is a complex phenomenon, which a new book on the Polish Nobel laureate’s oeuvre brings to light.
Quantum dot technology has also helped revolutionise medical imagining.
Some of the most innovative people in the world earn Nobel Prizes. Scholars of creativity identify what they have in common and what regular people can learn and emulate from their examples.
Wole Soyinka’s writing has explored the same themes for decades.
How Maria Ressa grew a Facebook page into the Philippines’ most credible independent news services in the face of government intimidation.
Science fields are improving at being more inclusive. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
The roots of Buddhist nationalism in Myanmar go back to colonial days. Those behind the military coup are seeking to harness it to legitimize the seizure of power.
With 3% of science Nobels going to women and zero going to Black people, these awards are an extreme example of how certain demographics are underrepresented in STEM fields.
Progress has been made toward gender parity in science fields. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
Stanford professor’s research has led to an increase in the number of kidney transplants in the United States.
With her writing, and her work as a publisher, Morrison brought the African-American experience to the fore in the US and around the world.
We need action to increase the number of black scientists if we’re ever to see a black Nobel winner.
Progress has been made toward gender parity in science fields. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was nixed because of a sex scandal. Other Nobels have neglected key contributors. Should all prizes be cancelled while criteria for winning is reassessed?
Nelson Mandela’s release in 1990 was met by an outpouring of poetic celebration both within South Africa and globally.
Unravelling the story of how a simple neurotransmitter led to the development of a drug for Parkinson’s disease.
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