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Biochemical engineer Frances Arnold receives the Millennium Technology Prize 2016 during the awards ceremony in Helsinki, Finland. Arnold, an American, shares this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two others, another American, George P. Smith and the

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Nobel Prize In Chemistry Honors Work That Demonstrates 'The Power Of Evolution'

9:53am October 03, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

An American woman, Frances H. Arnold, has won half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, and George Smith of the U.S. and Sir Gregory Winter of the U.K. will share the other half.

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Winners Of Nobel Prize In Chemistry Announced In Stockholm

8:39am October 03, 2018

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Frances H. Arnold, an American chemist, has won half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and George Smith of the U.S. and Sir Gregory Winter of the U.K will share the other half.

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Marie Curie (Left), French physicist and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, Canadian Donna Strickland (Middle), who won the 2018 prize for her work with lasers, and physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (Right), who won for her work in atomic physics in

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The Nobel Prize In Physics: 117 Years, Three Women And Counting

7:15pm October 02, 2018

by Geoff Brumfiel

Donna Strickland is the first woman to win the prize in a generation. Other women in physics are not surprised, but some hope change may be coming.

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Fried chicken and mac and cheese: A study suggests Southern cuisine may be at the center of a tangled web of reasons why blacks in America are more prone to hypertension than whites.

Southern Diet Blamed For High Rates Of Hypertension Among Blacks

7:13pm October 02, 2018

by Maanvi Singh

Fried chicken, mac and cheese and sweet drinks: A study suggests Southern cuisine may be at the center of a tangled web of reasons why blacks in America are more prone to hypertension than whites.

Horsham, Pa., is one of many towns around the country grappling with potentially harmful chemicals in its water. They're known as PFAS, and they're linked to cancer and other illnesses.

Decades Old Chemicals, New Angst Over Drinking Water

5:57pm October 02, 2018

by Jeff Brady

Around the country, communities are learning their drinking water is polluted with a potentially harmful group of chemicals. The Trump Administration is working on a plan to manage them.

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The orbits of the new extreme dwarf planet 2015 TG387 and its fellow inner Oort Cloud objects 2012 VP113 and Sedna as compared with the rest of the Solar System. 2015 TG387 was nicknamed ͞"The Goblin" by its discoverers, as its provisional designation co

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A Small Planet With Big Implications

5:01pm October 02, 2018

by Joe Palca

Astronomers have found a distant dwarf planet that appears to confirm the existence of Planet Nine, a giant planet lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system.

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Donna Strickland Becomes First Woman In More Than 50 Years To Win Physics Nobel Prize

4:37pm October 02, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to scientist Donna Strickland, who won the Nobel Prize for physics. She is the first woman to do so since 1963.

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Canadian professor Donna Strickland, American Arthur Ashkin and French scientist Gérard Mourou won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics announced on Tuesday for work in laser physics. Strickland is the third woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901.

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Scientists From U.S., Canada, France Split Nobel Prize In Physics For Laser Work

2:14pm October 02, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says American Arthur Ashkin has won half the prize, while Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada, the third female winner ever, share the rest.

Sizing Up The Universe With Neil deGrasse Tyson

1:55pm October 02, 2018

The famed astrophysicist knows a whole lot about a whole lot. He even used science to predict when LeBron James will retire from the NBA.

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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Physics

8:31am October 02, 2018

by Geoff Brumfiel

Arthur Ashkin, a U.S. physicist won for work with optical tweezers and Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada won for generating high-intensity ultra-short optical pulses.

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