The discoveries by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman – awarded the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine – were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020.
Through their groundbreaking findings, this year’s laureates have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system. They have contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics Anne L’Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light arose when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas.
Each overtone is a light wave with a given number of cycles for each cycle in the laser light. They are caused by the laser light interacting with atoms in the gas; it gives some electrons extra energy that is then emitted as light. L’Huillier has continued to explore this phenomenon, laying the ground for subsequent breakthroughs.
2023 physics laureate Pierre Agostini succeeded in producing and investigating a series of consecutive light pulses, in which each pulse lasted just 250 attoseconds. At the same time, his 2023 co-laureate Ferenc Krausz was working with another type of experiment, one that made it possible to isolate a single light pulse that lasted 650 attoseconds.
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
Today is Sci-Hub anniversary the project is 10 years old!
I'm going to publish 2,337,229 new articles to celebrate the date. They will be available on the website in a few hours (how about the lawsuit in India you may ask: our lawyers say that restriction is expired already)
Hoy se cumplen 20 años de "El viaje de Copperpot", uno de nuestros discos más emblemáticos. Basta con escucharlo unos segundos para viajar en el tiempo.
Aquí: https://t.co/cu7lHK8AHG
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3/3 - We can't see - so far - any 2nd waves in morbidity & mortality in Europe; e.g. ESP, FR, CH, NL, DK, we don't observe any 2nd increase in mortality. Note: there were no observable delay between morbidity & mortality curves in any country under monitoring for their 1st wave)
Me representa. A mí y a cualquier científico. Si no sabemos, no opinamos. Estudiamos y luego hablamos. Es lo que tiene estar acostumbrado a buscar siempre la verdad con honestidad y objetividad.
Distancia social nivel pro: en una escuela primaria de Hangzhou los niños llevan estos sombreros que les ayudan a mantener la distancia de un metro con sus compañeros 💡
Pandemia mundial como la gripe de 1918
Incendio en Chernobyl como en 1986
El volcán Krakatoa entra en erupción como en 1883
A ver si el 2020 es la season finale de nuestra serie y por eso está lleno de referencias, cameos y guiños cómplices para los seguidores de la saga.
¿Sabíais que los huevos hay que guardarlos con la punta hacia abajo? En la parte chata los huevos tienen una cámara de aire. Está situada entre dos membranas, pegadas por dentro a la cáscara. Son una barrera defensiva del huevo para evitar la contaminación #Divulgaquealgoqueda