Chemistry

Wed 4 Oct 2017. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Joachim Frank, Columbia University, New York, USA and Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. More

  Physics

Tue 3 Oct 2017. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". More

  Medicine

Mon 2 Oct 2017. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall (University of Maine, Maine, ME, USA), Michael Rosbash (Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA), and Michael W. Young (Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA) "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm". More

  Energy

Tue 1 Aug 2017. Engineers produce long lasting, energy density battery. The new research have applied a new twist to the old chemistry behind batteries. The result is a battery that takes advantage of intercalation and complexation chemistry to make the cathodes rechargeable to a larger extent, greatly extending its life. This is the first time a novel calcium hydroxide interlayer is used to block the poisonous zinc ions through complexation which will allow the battery to maintain its high energy density over 900 cycles. More