Dr. Moshe Nahamani

Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 was awarded to the scientists who developed the "genetic numbers" CRISPR immediately after winning the Wolff

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Illustration of the galaxy and the giant black hole at its center. The black hole converts some of the matter it absorbs into energetic radiation (shaded in blue), while the galaxy continues to form new stars (purple areas). [Image credit: Michael Helfenbein/Yale University - M. Helfenbein / Yale University]

Roger Penrose and the two black hole detectors at the center of the galaxy won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Explanation of the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Image: Nobel Prize Committee

The discoverers of the hepatitis C virus won the Nobel Prize for Medicine

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The winners are: Harvey Alter from the USA, Mike Houghton from the UK and Charles Rice from the USA
A scanning tunneling microscope image of a narrowband metallic graphene nanoribbon. The white spots refer to the orbitals occupied by a single electron that are carefully organized to produce long-range conductive states. The width of this strip is only 1.6 nanometers. [Courtesy: Daniel Rizzo of UC Berkeley]

Metallic carbon electric circuits for the development of faster and more efficient transistors

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Transistors based on carbon and not on silicon will be able to accelerate the speed of computing and reduce the energy consumption of devices such as computers, mobile phones and the like
The surface of Venus and its atmosphere, where phosphines are at cloud level. Figure: ESO

Has a chemical marker for the possibility of life on the surface of Venus been discovered?

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Astronomers have discovered a rare element - phosphine - in the clouds of the planet Venus. On Earth, this gas is only produced in industry or it is emitted by bacteria living in an oxygen-limited environment
Preparation and evaluation of physicochemical properties of novel hydrogels based on carbonated water [Courtesy University of Tokyo, Japan]

An innovative material that helps heal skin wounds

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As part of groundbreaking research, scientists have succeeded in developing a new method that does not require special equipment and can be performed at room temperature in order to produce a basic hydrogel in five minutes, a material that can be used in any procedure
All that plastic we all consume doesn't just disappear once we don't use it anymore. Illustration: pixabay.

Chemists have succeeded in recycling stable plastic

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Chemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have succeeded in developing a method to modify thermoplastic plastic materials using a chemical binder while making them easier to unload, while still retaining the mechanical strength that makes them useful lacquers.
Blueberries. From jumpstory

Antioxidants from blueberries and persimmons

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Feeding the growing world population in a sustainable manner is no simple task. To this end, scientists are looking into possibilities for converting by-products and waste of fruits and vegetables, such as peels and pulp created during food processing, into components
Vegan food basket. From jumpstory

Prevention of food contamination thanks to new coatings

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Refrigerator color. Figure: Courtesy of researchers, UCLA

White colors especially for cooling buildings

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The fifth cellular generation. Illustration: Image by ADMC from Pixabay

XNUMXG wireless networks have negligible health effects

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Schematic description of rod-shaped photoactive virus stacks glued together following the reaction with the dye (upper right corner)

Dyes and viruses together create an innovative material

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Design of the photonic structure that traps two photons inside. The photons move along the horizontal direction, each one along the arm of the cross. The holes are positioned so that the two photons are captured at the center point where the two arms of the cross cross. The blue and red curves represent the intensity of the electric fields of the corresponding photons. The photons react due to the non-linearity of the crystal that forms the cross. [Courtesy: Eric Proctor]

Quantum computing at room temperature

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Protein nanowires (greenish) derived from the bacterium Geobacter (background) are between electrodes (gold) creating a bioelectronic detector used to detect biomolecules (red). [Courtesy: UMass Amherst/Yao lab]

"From bacterial proteins to ammonia detectors"

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The corona virus. Illustration: Jimpstory

A new corona test detects viral DNA in minutes

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The loss of the senses of taste and smell reported by many corona patients. Illustration: shutterstock

Is the loss of the sense of smell and taste a sign of corona?

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Pile of used tires. Photo: Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Chemists have found a method to recycle used tires

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the process of photosynthesis. Illustration: Image by Markéta Machová from Pixabay

Another essential part of the photosynthesis process has been revealed

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Graphene sheet. Source: AlexanderAlUS / Wikimedia.

How do you convert waste into the important chemical substance graphene?

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Imaging the supernova explosions of the first giant stars to form in the Milky Way. The star J0815 + 4729 formed from the material ejected by these first supernovae. Photo courtesy of Gabriel Perez, SMM (IAC).

Astronomers have detected amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of an ancient star

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Differences in the cellular environment (acidity and metabolism) affect the solubility of metal oxides, in the present example copper oxide (CuO). The researchers hypothesized that plating the oxide with iron atoms could provide a therapeutic window to fight cancer. This means a release rate that is fast enough to target the cancer cells, but one that slows down significantly in healthy cells.

Copper-based nanomaterials can destroy cancer cells

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The ammonia molecule - NH3. Image by Colin Behrens from Pixabay

Ammonia production from atmospheric nitrogen has become simpler thanks to an innovative catalyst

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Caltech researchers' sweat detector

Wearable sweat detector to detect uric acids that cause gout (gout)

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biological enzymes. Illustration: shutterstock

Biological enzymes as a source of hydrogen

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A clean and convenient method for oxidizing plastic surfaces

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Micro-robots for cleaning radioactive waste

Micro-robots for cleaning radioactive waste

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A view of a cluster of young stars (million years old), known as the North American Nebula or the Plesian Nebula (top right). This is a clean and processed version of the original Spitzer Space Telescope image. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Illustration: shutterstock

Did the building blocks of life form in interstellar clouds?

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The artificial leaf structure. Virgil Andrei, Bertrand Reuillard & Erwin Reisner

Artificial leaf for clean gas production

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Winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Bannister Goodenough, Manley Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for lithium-ion battery developers

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The location of the planet pegasi-51b, the first planet discovered outside the solar system. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

The discovery of planets outside the solar system - changed our perception of the universe

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Nobel Prize winners in physics James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didia Kello. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

The discoverers of the first planet outside the solar system and the key to the cosmological theory were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Figure 2 The oxygen-sensing mechanism for which this year's Nobel laureates won is of fundamental importance in physiology, for example, for our metabolism and immune system and for our ability to exercise at variable vigorous levels. Many pathological processes are also affected by this mechanism. Today, many researchers are focusing on developing new drugs that can inhibit or activate the oxygen sensing mechanism, with the aim of improving treatments for anemia, cancer and other diseases. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee for Medicine

Three researchers who studied how cells sense oxygen levels have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Early detection of cancer. Illustration: Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

A nanotechnological biochip for detecting minimal levels of disease markers

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After being exposed to sunlight for ten minutes, the solid polymer (left) breaks down and disappears (right) [Courtesy: Paul Kohl]

A polymer that self-decomposes when exposed to the sun

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XNUMXD imaging of a sensor that surrounds part of the heart. Photo: Carnegie Mellon University

An innovative 'organ-on-a-chip' type technology was developed by an Israeli researcher

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Schematic of bacterial factories that consume carbon dioxide/water/nitrogen/oxygen and emit gasoline/bio-fuel/bio-plastic/fertilizers when exposed to sunlight [image from the article describing the study]

Nano-creatures that consume light and carbon dioxide and produce plastic and fuel

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Artist's rendering of a macroring binding to a target protein (image courtesy: University of Basel, Basilius Sauter | CC BY-SA 3.0)

Learning from nature - new substances for use as medicines

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Schematic description of the innovative battery - a semi-liquid anode that is in direct and sufficient contact with a ceramic electrolyte

Semi-liquid metallic anode in innovative batteries

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Neurons in XNUMXD. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers have succeeded in growing active brain networks

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New models based on deep learning predict the interactions between atoms in organic molecules. These models will help computational biologists and drug developers understand diseases and treat them more efficiently. Courtesy of University of Florida

Artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics will help discover drugs

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A collapsing star's supernova. (collapsar) (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Is a supernova the source of heavy metals on Earth?

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The phase corresponds to intermolecular sharing. Higher temperatures, and steep temperature drops - such as those that characterized the narrow, water-filled pores that existed within volcanic rocks and in which the synthesis of ancient DNA could have taken place. Photo: Dieter Braun

How was the first DNA molecule created?

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BMW hydrogen powered car. Photo from Wikimedia Commons

An innovative material that could create a breakthrough in hydrogen vehicles

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Electronic waste dump. Photo: shutterstock

Clean and efficient recycling of electronic waste

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This protein-DNA system was assembled by a three-armed DNA triangle of complementary strands forming tetrahedral cages consisting of six sides of DNA and a trimeric protein [Courtesy: Nicholas Stephanopoulos]

Building blocks of DNA and proteins form cage structures

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Polymer (left; whitish substance) that shrinks in response to blue light (right). [Courtesy: Jonathan Barnes], University of Washington

A muscle-like substance that expands and contracts in response to light

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A spider spins webs. Photo: shutterstock

Bacteria will be able to produce proteins for use in space

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The molecular structure of the state-of-the-art manganese catalyst in water [Courtesy: University of Göttingen]

A green alternative for drug production

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Two-dimensional nanoparticles that interact with stem cells and direct their differentiation into cartilage cells [Courtesy: Texas A&M University College of Engineering]

An innovative medical approach to the treatment of osteoarthritis

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Image of the innovative detector integrated inside a textile-silicone bandage [courtesy: Matthew Brown]

Wearable detectors as a skin that aids in wound healing

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