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Frances Arnold received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud

October 8, 2021

None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here’s why men still dominate STEM award winning

Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University

Science fields are improving at being more inclusive. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.

Falling into a black hole is easily the worst way to die. John M Lund Photography Inc/Getty Images

October 30, 2020

The scariest things in the universe are black holes – and here are 3 reasons

Chris Impey, University of Arizona

The scariest beast in the universe has an insatiable appetite and shreds its victims.

October 8, 2020

Nobel prize: how Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics

Andrew King, University of Leicester

Roger Penrose helped resurrect Einstein’s general theory of relativity, and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez showed there was a black hole in the middle of our galaxy.

A black hole is an object so compact that nothing can escape its gravitational pull, not even light. They are formed when stars die and start collapsing under their own weight. Deep inside the black hole resides an infinitely hot and dense object, a so-called, singularity. Science Photo Library - MARK GARLICK/Getty Images

October 6, 2020

2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries

Gaurav Khanna, UMass Dartmouth

The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists – an Englishman, an American and a German – for breakthroughs in understanding the most mysterious objects in the universe: black holes.

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