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How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago

By Artemis Spyrou, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University, Sean Liddick Associate Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry Winner Failed His First College Chem Exam

MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize chemistry for helping develop "quantum dots"– nanoparticles that are now found in...

Nobel prize Chemistry awarded for discovery of quantum dots that bring colour to LED lights

Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of clusters of atoms known as...

Scientists Identify Hidden Phase Transition Between Liquid and Solid

By RACHEL BERKOWITZ, LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY Improved understanding of glassy dynamics could help scientists explain why a liquid behaves like a solid, and develop...

Why is India dropping evolution and the periodic table from school science?

By Dyani Lewis National Science Day at St Thomas School in Secunderabad, India, in February. Will future students be able to exhibit the periodic table?Credit:...

Reserchers find New evidence that water separates into two different liquids at low temperatures

by University of Birmingham A new kind of "phase transition" in water was first proposed 30 years ago in a study by researchers from Boston...