Scientists have used computer simulations to show how bacteria are able to destroy antibiotics – a breakthrough which will help develop drugs which can effectively tackle infections in the f... Read more
One of this year’s Nobel Prize laureates says learning how to handle failure is key to becoming a successful scientist. American James Rothman, who shared the medicine prize with count... Read more
American Society for Cell Biology warns that temporary shutdown is inflicting long-term damage on American biomedicine A senior researcher who can’t get an answer from a shutdown NIH a... Read more
Eleven scientists became multimillionaires this morning when they were named the first winners of the new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Each researcher, whose specialties include gene... Read more
“This breakthrough lays the foundation for a new electronics revolution and we look forward to exploring its potential.” Scientists at CSIRO and RMIT University have produced a n... Read more
It is getting much attention as a sustainable substitute for raw materials now obtained from petroleum In a new approach for tapping biomass as a sustainable raw material, scientists are rep... Read more
Now that teams, not individuals, drive high-impact science,the Nobel Foundation should change how it awards its prize Two teams of scientists simultaneously announce the discovery of a lifet... Read more
A preference for recent advances Tech investor Yuri Milner, who shook the physics world two months ago by dishing out $27 million to the nine inaugural awardees of his Fundamental Physics Pr... Read more
To jump start things, in he stumped up $27m for nine prizes. IN THE late 1980s, while working on a PhD thesis in the fiendishly complicated maths of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the... Read more
Might open new and dramatic possibilities in nanotechnology In what became known as the ‘Scotch tape technique,” researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in... Read more
The real story is more complicated Every successful modern e-gadget is a combination of components made by many makers. The story of how the transistor became the building block of modern ma... Read more
It is designed to raise the profile of engineering and the recipients can be of any nationality A £1m prize – named after the Queen – is to be awarded for exceptional adva... Read more
There isn’t a Nobel Prize for education. But this month has seen the launch of an award that would like to have such a similar international status. The inaugural World Innovation Summ... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Slashdot points us to an interview with Andre Geim, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for physics for his work on graphene. As part of the interview, they asked him a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Dean Kamen is best known as the inventor of the Segway scooter. His career illustrates the difficulty of turning innovative ideas into reality “AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD today se... Read more
