Scientists and Awards

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (291+ words) Scientists have invented a DNA sampler module to collect residual deep-sea genetic material for biological surveys and long-term maritime ecology monitoring, the Taiwan Oceanic Research Institute said in a statement yesterday. A test of the module identified 365 species in waters…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (130+ words) Sep 15, 2026, 13:20 ET 50×50: Science Across America is presented by the Independent Media Initiative, in collaboration with Emmy award-winning HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Winn Family Foundation, and the Shanahan Family Foundation, with additional support from the…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (262+ words) Pillar One: The Scientific Mindset Pillar Two: Embracing the Void The Alchemy of Not Knowing This requires emotional discipline rarely celebrated in popular descriptions of science. "I proposed this idea" must never become "I am this idea." A scientist, at…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (128+ words) Prof. Wasserscheid is the Chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the director of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy and the Institute for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy, both of which belong to the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (810+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, but its flooded paddies come with a hidden atmospheric cost: waterlogged soils trap oxygen, push roots into anaerobic stress, and foster the microbes that produce methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (214+ words) The Toray Science Foundation of Korea said on the 8th that it selected Kim Sang-kyu, a chemistry professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Kim Yun-hee, a chemistry professor at Gyeongsang National University, as winners of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (576+ words) The Water Innovation Fund has launched the seventh Water Breakthrough Challenge, which will award up to £50 million to collaborative innovations that tackle the water sector’s biggest issues. Water Breakthrough Challenge 7 is calling for new thinking and diverse solutions. Entries can…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (590+ words) Founded in 1869, Nature has long been one of the world’s top science journals. Thus many were surprised by its editorial yesterday on who’s to blame for the tragic death, thought to be suicide, of disgraced Cambridge scholar Jason Arday: “The…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (575+ words) WHAT a pleasure it was at the weekend to receive a letter from New Zealand telling me that Harry McNish had been awarded the first ever Polar medal by the Irish Polar Association, a relatively new organisation. Note that the…...

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