Why insights of Nobel physicists could revolutionise 21st-century computing

Oct 07, 2016 00:15 am UTC| Science

British scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz won this years Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. The reference to...

From muscles to motors: 2016 chemistry Nobel goes to creators of the world's tiniest machines

Oct 06, 2016 14:55 pm UTC| Science

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three individuals for designing and developing molecular machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage of Frances University of Strasbourg, J. Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern...

Play video games, advance science

Oct 06, 2016 14:28 pm UTC| Science

Computer gaming is now a regular part of life for many people. Beyond just being entertaining, though, it can be a very useful tool in education and in science. If people spent just a fraction of their play time solving...

One reason so many scientific studies may be wrong

Oct 06, 2016 14:24 pm UTC| Science

There is a replicability crisis in science unidentified false positives are pervading even our top research journals. A false positive is a claim that an effect exists when in actuality it doesnt. No one knows what...

If there was a Nobel silver medal, I'd award it to Jeffrey Gordon and our gut microbes

Oct 05, 2016 12:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

A hot tip for this years Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was Jeffrey Gordon. (In case you missed it, the prize went to Yoshinori Ohsumi.) Over the past 15 years, Gordon has progressed an obscure study of boring gut...

Before Nobels: Gifts to and from rich patrons were early science's currency

Oct 05, 2016 11:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

While the Nobel Prizes are 115 years old, rewards for scientific achievement have been around much longer. As early as the 17th century, at the very origins of modern experimental science, promoters of science realized the...

US Election Series

Science is key to U.S. standing, but presidential candidates largely ignore it

Oct 04, 2016 14:14 pm UTC| Science Politics

Aside from Hillary Clintons brief mentions of the need to focus on developing technology and clean energy jobs and addressing climate change, science issues were absent from the first presidential debate. Unfortunately,...