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James Watson, discoverer of the structure of DNA. Illustration: depositphotos.com

James Watson, one of the pioneers in discovering the structure of DNA – and the controversial figure behind the “double helix” – has died

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Nobel laureate James Watson has died at the age of 97; along with his seminal contribution to uncovering the structure of DNA with Francis Crick, new historical research highlights Rosalind Franklin’s central role – and
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 winners. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: The MOF Revolution – Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Capture and Green Energy

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Three researchers – Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yagi – have won the Nobel Prize for developing novel porous materials capable of storing, filtering and trapping molecules, with applications ranging from medicine to the climate crisis.
The system of restraints and brakes of the immune system. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2025: Discovery of the brakes on the immune system

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A tesseract (a four-dimensional cube) and the "shadow" it casts on a plane - the quasi-crystal discovered by Shechtman. According to Prof. Bartel, "The fact that a quasi-crystal is a "shadow" of a high-dimensional periodic crystal is not new in itself. We discovered that the casting is not only of but also of topological properties such as holes, distortions or vortices." Illustration: Florian Sterl, Sterltech Optics

Greetings from the Fourth Dimension: Technion Researchers Unveil New Breakthrough in the Field of Quasi-Crystals

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New research reveals that the fourth dimension dictates not only the structure but also the topological properties of quasicrystals, offering a deeper understanding of a phenomenon that won Prof. Dan Shechtman the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Prof. Paul Ehrlich. Credit: Library of Congress, via Wikimedia

Nobel Prize winner Paul Ehrlich - founder of immunology and chemotherapy

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Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize, chemotherapy, syphilis, immunology, magic bullet, Judaism and science, medical history, pharmacology, Hebrew University
Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, two of the main researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Artificial intelligence plays a major role in two categories of the 2024 Nobel Prizes. This is a sign of things to come

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It is likely that we will see more Nobel medals awarded to researchers who used AI tools. As this happens, we may find that the scientific methods honored by those Nobel Prize committees will move away from the simple categories of "physics," "chemistry," and "physiology."

Who will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year? All predictions

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The Nobel Prizes are announced at the beginning of October every year, and about a month before that rumors, predictions and speculations are spread about the identity of the candidates and the chances of winning. In recent years, using innovative data analysis tools, forecasting experts
The 25 most interesting images taken by the Chandra Space Telescope in its 25 years so far. Credit: NASA/SAO/CXC

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Celebrates 25 Years With Impressive Cosmic Images

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Since its launch in 1999, Chandra has helped unravel cosmic mysteries, supported the research of thousands of astronomers, and maintained its status as a cornerstone of astrophysical research.
Nerves. Credit: Mahmoud Ali-Saleh

A mechanism has been discovered that causes sleep apnea in sick children

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One of the diseases resulting from such mutations in the PHOX2B gene is the disease CCHS. This is a rare and life-threatening syndrome in which babies, children and adults stop breathing as soon as they fall asleep. Patients must be connected to ventilators to
Rosalind Franklin during her stay in France. Photo: from Wikipedia

New findings on Rosalind Franklin's role in discovering the structure of DNA

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An article published in Nature details Franklin's part in discovering the "backbone" of the DNA molecule. However, due to the competition between the groups, she avoided publishing a large part of them herself, as well as Watson and Crick
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three chemical waves Click bioorthogonal chemistry to improve the precision of medicines

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022 was awarded to three scientists working in the field of synthetic chemistry: Caroline Bertuzzi (Carolyn R. Bertozzi), Morten P. Meldal (Morten P. Meldal) as well as Karl Barry Sharpless (KarlBarrySharpless), thanks to "the development of
On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

"It was difficult for Emmanuel Charpentier to publish because no one was interested in infectious diseases as long as there was no epidemic"

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This is what Prof. Harmona Sorek from the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University says in an interview with the Scientist website, who is happy about the decision to award Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Wolf Prize last year. Now Charpentier is establishing the
Photo of Roger Penrose winning the Wolf Prize with Stephen Hawking at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Photo credit Wolf Foundation

Nobel laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman: "Penrose has an indirect connection to my discovery" The winners in chemistry developed an "explosive" in biology

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Prof. Shechtman, chairman of the Wolf Foundation, also tells about the ratio of one-third of the Wolf Prize winners in the respective fields who later win Nobel Prizes, and why there are such large differences in the gaps. Crisper, like nitroglycerin, can be used
Star S2 orbiting the black hole at the center of the galaxy - Sagittarius (Sagittarius) *A, one of the proofs for the existence of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, from the research of 2020 Nobel Prize winners Reinhart Ganzel and Andrea Gas. From Wikipedia. By ESO/M. Kornmesser - https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1825b/ , CC BY 1825, Link

"Without the observations of Ganzel and Gas, the whole subject of black holes would have remained theoretical"

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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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In this map, built on the basis of the observations of the Planck spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency, you can see the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB), the earliest observable light of the universe, and it gives us the best picture ever of the universe in its early childhood. The blue areas in the sky represent points where the temperature of the background radiation, and in any case also of the early universe, is lower, and the red areas reflect warmer places. Proponents of the inflationary theory, which holds that the universe expanded rapidly in its early moments, argue that the pattern of hot and cold spots is consistent with this idea. However, the theory can actually produce any pattern, and in most of its versions it produces larger temperature differences than this map shows. Moreover, if inflation did occur, the background radiation should include evidence for cosmic gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime caused by the primordial stretch, but it does not. Instead, the Planck data reveal that the true story of our universe's history is still far from over. Source: ESA and the Planck Collaboration.

Nobel laureate Prof. Peebles revealed the secrets behind cosmic radiation

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Yael Rosh 2018, Rector of Achava Academic College. PR photo

Third overall winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and fifth in Chemistry: Where have the top female scientists gone?

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Nobel Prize Coin for Chemistry. Source: Adam Baker.

Israelis, Jews and winning international awards

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From right to left: Prof. Emeritus Rainer Weiss, Ian Driver (brother of Prof. Emeritus Ronald Driver), Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie and Prof. Emeritus Kip Stefan Thorn. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

From the Harvey Prize at the Technion - to the Nobel Prize in Stockholm

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Technion campus. Source: Technion / Israel Institute of Technology, Wikimedia.

The Technion was ranked in the top ten of the "Nobel Universities" in the sciences

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The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a photo from 2012. From Wikipedia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, in an interview he gave to the website Hadaan in 2008: Scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes

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The process of repair through nucleotide excision that earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoverers of DNA repair mechanisms

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Prof. Aryeh Warshel, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Photo courtesy of him.

Prof. Aryeh Warshel in an interview with the Hidaan site: "I was always content with the first formula in the book, and I entered it into the computer." First part of the series

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Chemical weapons have been used for 100 years, only now have we remembered that stopping them is worth a Nobel Peace Prize

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drug search. Illustration: shutterstock

Transferring the experiments to the computerized space - a popular explanation of the science of the 2013 Nobel laureates in chemistry

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The recording of the announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine: the discoverers of the intracellular transport system James Rothman, Randy Schakman and Thomas Sudhoff

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Prof. Ada Yonat, winner of the Nobel Prize for deciphering the spatial structure of the ribosome. Photo: Miki Korn, Weizmann Institute of Science, Wikipedia

Noble blue-white

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from the King of Sweden, December 10, 2011. Screenshot: from a Channel 1 broadcast

Prof. Sven Lydin from the Swedish Academy of Sciences: Prof. Shechtman's case demonstrates that the dwarf standing on the giant's shoulders sees and the giant is blind

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From left to right: Professor Shechtman, Ambassador Benny Dagan, Irit Dagan and Tzipi Shechtman in the lobby of the Grand Hotel. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Tonight at 17:00 the ceremony of awarding the Nobel Prize to Prof. Danny Shechtman

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Lars Heikenstein at the press conference at the Nobel Foundation. Photo: Technion spokespeople

The CEO of the Nobel Foundation on Professor Shechtman's win: "The cases where a person wins the prize alone, without partners, are rare, and they will be rarer in the future"

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Milestones in the expansion of the universe. From Wikipedia

The cold end of the universe

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Einstein

The Cosmological Constant: Einstein's Serious Mistake That Led to the Nobel Prize in Physics Part II

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Prof. Ralph Steinman, discovers immune cells. Winner of the 2011 Hovel Medicine Award. From the NIH

An embarrassing glitch for the members of the Nobel Prize committee - one of the winners died a few days before the announcement of the win and they were not informed of this

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Prof. Ralph Steinman, discovers immune cells. Winner of the 2011 Hovel Medicine Award. From the NIH

Nobel Prize for Medicine for 2011 to three researchers who made discoveries in the immune system

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Nobel Prize Medal

The "molecule makers" won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - extended explanation

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Prof. Ada Yonat in her laboratory, November 30, 2009. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Prof. Ada Yonat's speech of thanks as part of the festive event on the evening of the awarding of the prize

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Academic vision and its opposite

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ribosome: the key to life at the atomic level part XNUMX

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ribosome: the key to life at the atomic level part XNUMX - Ada Yonat - the persistent pioneer

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Ribosome: The Key to Life at the Atomic Level Part II

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ribosome - the key to life at the atomic level. An explanation of the system for which Prof. Ada Yonat and two of her colleagues won the Nobel Prize

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Ada Yonat's work made it possible to decipher and understand the mechanism of action of five antibiotic drugs

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Ada Yonat from the Weizmann Institute won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ribosome breaker

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Prof. Ada Yonet is on the list of potential winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for researching the function and structure of the ribosome. Today we will know

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Professor Aharon Chahanover was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nobel Prize in Economics to a man of exact sciences: Prof. Israel Oman from the Hebrew University

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The president of the Technion: the plea of ​​the Nobel Prize winners fell on deaf ears; The universities are in danger

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Molecular Kiss of Death

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