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Pollution

Researchers find microplastics in clouds

The chemical composition of the plastic pieces suggests they could promote cloud formation, indirectly affecting the climate


Toxic metal mining waste could impact 23 million people

Model shows how 4 toxic metals have likely spread downstream from metal mines and waste storage facilities

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Nobel Prize

Two share prize for Nobel Prize in Medicine for mRNA vaccine research

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman receive prize for discoveries regarding nucleoside base modifications that made it possible to develop effective vaccines for COVID-19


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Nobel Prize

Three quantum dot researchers awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov share prize for research that added color to nanotechnology


Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three for attosecond scale electron dynamics

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will share the prize for their research on of extremely short pulses of light and the rapid processes that happen to electrons within matter