Sunday’s brutal crackdown against students protesting at one of Iran’s most prestigious universities has shocked Iranian academics and students around the world. The attack, at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, also drove home the important role students and universities are playing in the popular uprising against the Iranian government. Protests at many other...
Researchers seeking funding from the United States’s single biggest funder of the physical sciences will now have to think about how they can structure their own efforts to promote greater participation by researchers and students of color and from other underrepresented groups. This week, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science, which has an annual budget of...
Researchers seeking funding from the United States’s single biggest funder of the physical sciences will now have to think about how they can structure their own efforts to promote greater participation by researchers and students of color and from other underrepresented groups. This week, the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science, which has an annual budget of...
Just before dawn on 22 February 2021, a fireball lit up the skies across Canada’s Alberta province when a 2-kilogram space rock vaporized as it plunged through Earth’s atmosphere. Although the object hailed from the Oort Cloud—a conglomeration of comets at the edge of the Solar System—it wasn’t a comet, researchers now say. Data collected during its fall suggest the object was...
A new, convenient type of chemistry developed over the past two decades has been honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. Carolyn Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of the University of Copenhagen, and Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, share the award for “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” The Royal...
Think of it as Lego for chemistry. This year’s Nobel Prize in the field has gone to a pioneering way to join molecules together—known as click chemistry—that has made everything from cancer drugs to industrial materials easier to assemble, without all of the byproducts that result from traditional methods. The advance has also allowed biologists to map biomolecules in cells without...