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The Economist
The Economist
9 Oct 2024


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Science & technology | The 2024 Nobel prizes

Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry

The award honours protein design and the use of AI for protein-structure prediction

IT IS A recurring joke among chemists that the Nobel prize for chemistry is, more often than not, awarded for developments in biology. Recent examples include awards for the gene-editing tool CRISPR, in 2020; directed evolution of enzymes and antibodies, in 2018; and DNA repair mechanisms, in 2015. Some may view this year’s prize, which awarded work designing and predicting the structure of proteins, as a continuation of that trend. But the main message lies elsewhere: some of the best brains in chemistry do not only make molecules, they make computer models too.

left: John Hopfield right: Dr. Geoffrey Hinton.

AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics

The award, to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, stretches the definition of the field

Victor Ambros Molecular & Gary Ruvkun.

A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA

These tiny molecules regulate genes and control how cells develop and behave


Illustration of a yellow smiley face with a frown instead of a smile, across the frown, there’s a colorful wave that looks like an audio waveform

AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions

Models look for sound patterns undetectable by the human ear


Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work

Better tools are needed to analyse their effects

Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases

The isolation can be geographic or cultural

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow

For now, it is the most sophisticated connectome ever made