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A new study has revealed something both surprising and alarming: the food people grow near small gold mining sites in Africa is being contaminated — not through the soil as scientists long believed, but directly from the air. This discovery, published in the journal Biogeosciences by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), shows that mercury — … Read more
On 8 October 2025 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne) and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley). The trio was honoured “for the development of metal–organic frameworks” (MOFs) — a family of crystalline, porous materials that chemists today … Read more
The Announcement The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their pioneering discoveries that explain how the immune system learns to restrain itself — a process scientists call peripheral immune tolerance. The trio’s work uncovered the biological mechanisms that stop the immune … Read more
In a decision that underscores how fundamental physics can become the engine of new technologies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Their … Read more