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2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners American biochemist David Baker, from left, American researcher John Jumper and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, the AI division behind Gemini. | Photo Credit: UW Medicine/Google DeepMind via AP/AP Photo/Jeff Chiu The story so far: The 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry was jointly awarded to David Baker for…
(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) The science Nobel Prize announcements for 2024 drew to a close on Wednesday evening, adding seven new laureates to the roster as well as showcasing a preference for AI-related work….
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A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990’s, according to NASA, obtained by Reuters May 14, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed…
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More than 1.1 million Australians are estimated to be living with an eating disorder. Around one-third of these people are neurodivergent. So why are neurodivergent people, such as autistic people and those with ADHD, more likely to experience eating disorders than the broader population? And how does this impact their treatment? First, what is neurodivergence? Neurodivergence, or the state of being neurodivergent,…
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2024 was shared by David Baker “for computational…
A test tube labelled “Bird Flu” and eggs are seen in this picture illustration, January 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating vulnerable species and war-gaming response plans. Oceania is…
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Representative illustration. | Photo Credit: Growtika/Unsplash The story so far: On October 8, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize for physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. Their work lies at the roots of a large tree of work, the newest branches of which…
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In his quest to understand how each cell of an organism interprets the same genome in a different way, researcher Sascha Duttke wondered whether there might be any undiscovered rules of biology. The human genome contains information about our development, functioning, growth, and reproduction, and all of it takes up only about 2 MB of…
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John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. Photo: www.nobelprize.org The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on…
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SpaceX has launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a “rescue mission” to bring back two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since June. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams travelled to the space station on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was on its first mission with a human crew. But several engines malfunctioned once in space and the vehicle was found…
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