chemistry

Israeli scientist Ada Yonath, professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at a press conference in Rehovot on October 07, 2009.

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Technology & Science

Israeli Nobel Prizer winner Professor Ada Yonath has passed away at 87

Professor Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work in the study of ribosome structure using crystallography

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أعلنت لجنة نوبل في 8 أكتوبر 2025 فوز الياباني سوسومو كيتاغاوا، والبريطاني ريتشارد روبسون، والأمريكي الأردني عمر م. ياغي بجائزة نوبل في الكيمياء لتطويرهم ما يسمى بالأطر المعدنية العضوية.

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Technology & Science

US scientist of Palestinian origin among Nobel Prize winners in chemistry

The prize committee has announced the three winners: Susumu Kitagawa from Japan, Richard Robson from Australia, and Omar Yaghi from the USA, born to Palestinian parents in Jordan

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A screen shows this year's laureates US Chemist Moungi Bawendi, US Chemist Louis Brus and Russian physicist Alexei Ekimov during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry

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Technology & Science

Nobel Chemistry Prize awarded to 3 scientists for discovery of quantum dots

Media in Sweden leaked the names - Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov - hours before the official Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcement

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The skyline of the Gulf Emirate of Dubai with Burj Khalifa (center) on March 3, 2021.

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The Gulf

World Summit on Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine to take place in Dubai

More than 11,000 UAE scientists and medical specialists are invited to the event

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Pr Mechoulam

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Technology & Science

Raphael Mechoulam, Israeli professor and world pioneer in cannabis research, dies at 92

Mechoulam, a Bulgarian-born Israeli organic chemist, was known as the 'father of cannabis research' after isolating THC and CBD

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Professor Carolyn Bertozzi discusses her research during an interview shortly after learning she was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on October 5, 2022, in California, the United States.

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Technology & Science

Nobel Prize for 3 chemists who ‘snapped molecules together’

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, K. Barry Sharpless, and Morten Meldal win the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry

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A child crouches over cracked earth at the Massira dam in Ouled Essi Masseoud village, Morocco, on August 8, 2022, amid the country's worst drought in at least four decades.

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Environment

Middle East warming twice as fast as global average - report

Temperatures in the region are expected to rise up to 9 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century

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