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Who Didn't Win This Year's Nobel Prize In Physics

There are many deserving scientists, but only one prize.

Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer

Technology

UPDATE: Three Share Nobel Prize for Molecular Machine Discoveries

The winners of the chemistry prize developed ways to produce machines 1,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.

Chris Gorski, Editor

Technology

Three Share Nobel Prize For Molecular Machine Discoveries

The winners of the chemistry prize hail from France, Scotland and the Netherlands.

Inside Science Staff

Physics

UPDATE: Three Share Nobel Prize for Study of Exotic States of Matter

2016 Nobel Prize in Physics honors theoretical discoveries that help scientists understand unusual properties of materials, such as superconductivity and superfluidity.

Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer

Physics

David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz Share Nobel Prize for Study of Exotic States of Matter

2016 Nobel Prize honors "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter."

Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer

Human

UPDATE: Physiology or Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Cell's Recycling Process

Yoshinori Ohsumi revealed the workings of autophagy, a routine biological process implicated in many diseases.

Brian Owens, Contributor

Human

Yoshinori Ohsumi Wins Nobel Prize For Cellular Breakdown And Recycling Discoveries

A Japanese cell biologist will win the award for physiology or medicine for explaining autophagy, or "self-eating."

Inside Science Staff

Culture

Coverage Of The 2016 Nobel Prizes Begins Next Week

Beginning early Monday morning, Inside Science will have coverage of the Nobel Prize announcements.

Chris Gorski, Editor

Technology

Nobel Chemistry Blog

Reactions to the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Sara Rennekamp, Contributing Editor

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