This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry could recognize work on molecularly thin, smart surface layers that protect electronics from corrosion or serve as highly accurate disease tests. The prize could also recognize skeletal editing. Here are some of the researchers tipped to win.
SwedenGoogle's new computer chip springs into circles around the predecessors. And indicates that we live in a multiverse.
WorldNow this year's Nobel laureates have received their medals and been hailed with song and speech. But the prize ceremony is held against a backdrop of a world in turmoil. The laureates have paved the way. Science, literature, and peace offer different paths to tackle today's problems, says the Nobel Foundation's chairperson Astrid Söderbergh Widding in her introductory speech.
SwedenDemis Hassabis is one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in chemistry. He is rewarded for his work on developing protein structures with the help of AI. I was really shocked and I became kind of empty for a few minutes, he says to TT.
SwedenThe researchers David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have cracked the codes for the structure of proteins, "life's chemical multi-tool". Now they are being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry by the Academy of Sciences.
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