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• Kimberly Baumann

  

  How crystal 'eyes' won the Nobel prize – 100 years ago

  The Guardian - Stephen Curry

  Stephen Curry: A new animated film celebrates the centenary of x-ray crystallography, a Nobel prizewinning technique

• Kimberly Baumann

  

  Multi-scale modelling scientists win 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry - video

  The Guardian - Source: Reuters

  Professor Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel share the award for developing multi-scale models for complex chemical systems

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  Kimberly Baumann

  Oct 9, 2013
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  Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Took Chemistry Into Cyberspace

  NPR - Michaeleen Doucleff

  This year's Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared by three international scientists, who moved chemistry out of the lab and into the world of computing. Together they developed tools for studying complex molecules — such as enzymes in the human body and plants' photosynthesis machinery — inside …

• Kimberly Baumann

  

  The Hardest Thing To Find In The Universe?

  NPR - Robert Krulwich

  What is rarer than a shooting star? Rarer than a diamond? Rarer than any metal, any mineral, so rare that if you scan the entire earth, all six million billion billion kilos or 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds of our planet, you would find only one ounce of it? What is so rare it has never …

• Kimberly Baumann

  

  Element of the week: plutonium | video

  guardian.co.uk - GrrlScientist

  This week's chemical element is plutonium, which has the symbol Pu and the atomic number 94. Inspired by the previous two elements in the periodic …