WhatisBiotechnology17h ago
On this day in 1959: Andrew Z Fire born, won 2006 #NobelPrize for demonstrating double-stranded RNA silences genes #ThisDayInBiotech
Amoebina Proteus1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@readit/116470890561279340

> Ласло #Краснахоркаи, лауреат Нобелевской премии 2025 года. Пишет о крахе, страхе, абсурде и странной комедии человеческого поведения, когда мир кажется готовым развалиться на части.
> Его романы славятся длинными гипнотическими предложениями.

> Идеальным началом для знакомства с его творчеством станут романы #СатанинскоеТанго или #МеланхолияСопротивления.

#книги #писатели #чтопочитать #Krasznahorkai #nobelprize #литература #bookstodon #booklovers #абсурд #novel

WhatisBiotechnology1d ago
On this day in 1932: Michael Smith was born, won 1993 #NobelPrize for site-directed mutagenesis, a technique to alter specific genes #ThisDayInBiotech
Readit Club1d ago

2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.

A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.

#books #writers #reading #Krasznahorkai #nobelprize #literature #book #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #BookTok #booklovers #bookish #absurdity #novel #satantango #melancholy

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences3d ago
Our Secretary General, Ellen Moons, has today been elected to the Board of the Nobel Foundation. ⭐ #science #NobelPrize

New board members to the Nobel...
New board members to the Nobel Foundation

Two new board members elected to the Board of directors of the Nobel Foundation At a meeting on 24 April, the Trustees of the Nobel Foundation certified the Foundation’s annual report for 2025. Two new board members were also elected to the Board of directors of the Nobel Foundation: Ellen Moons, who started serving as […]

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WhatisBiotechnology3d ago
On this day in 1964: Gerhard Domagk died, won 1939/1947 #NobelPrize for discovering sulphonamides, 1st form of antibiotic #ThisDayInBiotech
WhatisBiotechnology3d ago
On this day in 1947: Roger D Kornberg born, won 2006 #NobelPrize for showing how genetic information is transferred #ThisDayInBiotech
WhatisBiotechnology5d ago
On this day in 1909: Rita Levi-Montalcini born, won 1986 #NobelPrize for discovery of nerve growth factor #ThisDayInBiotech
Gaël M6d ago
Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, l’écoféministe colombienne reçoit le Prix Goldman, le « Nobel de l’environnement »
#Ecofeminisme #nobelprize
https://www.humanite.fr/environnement/ecologie/yuvelis-natalia-morales-blanco-lecofeministe-colombienne-recoit-le-prix-goldman-le-nobel-de-lenvironnement
Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, l’écoféministe colombienne reçoit le Prix Goldman, le « Nobel de l’environnement »

Lundi 20 avril, Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, la jeune militante écoféministe colombienne, issue d’une famille de pêcheurs, a reçu le prix Goldman – le Nobel de la cause environnementale.

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Apr 20
'Chances of you living 50yr are very small': #TheoreticalPhysicist explains why humanity won't survive to see forces unified
#NobelPrize #physicist #DavidGross, received $3M Special Breakthrough Prize in #Physics, talks quest to unite all forces and why humanity might not see unified theory
"Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people… chances of you living 50 years are very small. Due to the danger of #nuclearwar, you have about 35yr"
https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/the-chances-of-you-living-50-years-are-very-small-theoretical-physicist-explains-why-humanity-likely-wont-survive-to-see-all-the-forces-unified
https://archive.ph/qjPeo
'The chances of you living 50 years are very small': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won't survive to see all the forces unified

Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and why humanity might not live to see a unified theory.

Live Science