This year’s Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine have celebrated work that has been used to develop countless drugs and transform modern medicine, allowed physicists to observe one of the most my
This year’s Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine have celebrated work that has been used to develop countless drugs and transform modern medicine, allowed physicists to observe one of the most mysterious particles, and provided a tool that could act as an on/off switch for brain cells. To find out more, Madeleine Finlay talks to our science editor, Ian Sample, and correspondents Nicola Davis and Linda Geddes Nobel prize in medicine 2026 awarded for research into mysteries of brain Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on mirror-image molecules Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod
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