Former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has died, aged 100. His legacy, including his involvement in the Vietnam war, is long, complicated and divisive.
Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Janet G. Hering, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Susanne Täuber, University of Amsterdam, and Ursula Keller, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Studies reveal women’s research receives tougher assessment, less funding, fewer prizes and less citation than men’s.
Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in Evin, Iran’s most notorious prison for political detainees.
Some Nobel Prize-winning ideas originate in strange places, but still go on to revolutionize the scientific field. George de Hevesy’s research on radioactive tracers is one such example.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics recognized researchers studying electron movement in real time − this work could revolutionize electronics, laser imaging and more.
Three scientists won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for their work developing methods to shoot laser pulses that only last an attosecond, or a mind-bogglingly tiny fraction of a second.