SoT 122: 2013 Nobel Prizes

Published: Oct. 27, 2013, 8:21 a.m.

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 was awarded jointly to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. S\\xfcdhof \\u201dfor their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells\\u201d.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013\\xa0was awarded jointly to Fran\\xe7ois Englert and Peter W. Higgs \\u201cfor the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN\\u2019s Large Hadron Collider\\u201d.

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel \\u201dfor the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems\\u201d.

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A new study shows that even without training, elephants can understand pointing.

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A protein found in the venom of the Chinese red headed centipede could be a total painkiller.

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