MicroRNA, Protein Folding and Machine-Learning Work Win the Science Nobels

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October 14, 2024, 10:00 AM

• •The 2024 Nobel Prizes were announced last week, with Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on microRNA.
• •John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in machine learning.
• •Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and David Baker won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on protein folding and design.

This week's Science Quickly podcast covers the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry, as well as a new study that suggests COVID could up the risk of heart attacks and strokes even years after the infection itself. We also discuss Hurricane Milton, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday, and NASA's decision to scrub the October 10 launch of its highly anticipated Europa Clipper mission on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket due to the storm.

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