The 2024 medicine prize is about a fundamental principle for the way gene activity is regulated. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, which are very small bits of RNA molecules that play a decisive role in fine-tuning the activity of genes. Gene regulation with microRNA controls how much of a certain protein is synthesized…

The 2022 Nobel Prizes are about quantum mechanics, click chemistry, human evolution, Annie Ernaux’s writing, fight for human rights and the role of banks in financial crises. This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson on all the 2022 Nobel Prizes. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes and includes a slideshow with…

The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. The laureates have been selected for their work to promote human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbouring countries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. They have…

Most people have some sort of contact with a bank several times a week. Maybe they pay for things with a credit card or a mobile payment app, or they have money saved in an account at the bank. The same is true for businesses. In times of economic crisis, there is a risk that…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a function form of chemistry – click chemistry – that allows researchers to construct molecules in an efficient and systematic way. Carolyn Bertozzi has further refined click chemistry and used it in living…

Annie Ernaux was born in 1940, made her debut in 1970 and has had a long and productive career as an author ever since. Her books, which number more than twenty in all, are often based on her own childhood, mixing fragments of memories with the collective memories that characterise the time in which she…

Quantum mechanics, which was developed about a hundred years ago, brought about a revolution in how we view the underlying forces that make up our world. One of quantum mechanics’ most remarkable consequences is “entanglement” – that particles can be linked together in spite of being separated by some distance and even though no signals…

Humanity has always been intrigued by its own origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to the forms of humans who came before us? What makes us Homo sapiens different from other types of humans? Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something no one thought possible: sequencing the genome of…