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For the first time, researchers have created an oil-repellent surface using a cheap, common plastic.

By STEPH YIN

Names were proposed for four elements on the tables seventh row: Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

He shared the prize in 1996 for discovering a new form of carbon, nicknamed the buckyball.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

A chemist and physicist who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna as a teenager and built a distinguished academic career in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1957.

By SAM ROBERTS

What would you name a new element on the periodic table? Scientists will soon have to decide. New York Times readers had some suggestions.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

Element 113 is credited to scientists from the Riken institute in Japan, who will bestow an official name more than 12 years after they began their efforts.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

Researchers said they have developed a technique for creating a substance they are calling Q-carbon, which could have uses in medicine and industry.

By JONAH BROMWICH

For decades, aspiring bomb makers including ISIS have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. Theres a reason that they never have.

By C. J. CHIVERS

Dr. Heck shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules that are now used to make drugs, electronics and other products.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recalls how news of his Nobel Prize in Chemistry was broken to him and says he is honored to share the award with his colleague.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This weeks three Nobels reflect the globalization of science, which in the last century the United States often dominated.

By WILLIAM J. BROAD

With announcements of this years Nobel Prizes set to kick off on Monday, here is how eight past winners got the word.

As told to CLAUDIA DREIFUS

Dr. Betzig was one of three scientists given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 for a new class of microscope, capping a quest that started in 1982.

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS

As death nears, I am surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy, with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity.

By OLIVER SACKS

Dr. Roses early interest in the problem of protein disposal helped lead to the development of a new class of cancer-fighting drugs.

By KENNETH CHANG

Learning about physics and chemistry is often not easy, but through interactivity and other methods, technology can help simplify some concepts.

By KIT EATON

Three apps that use videos and interactive features to help explain the principles of physics, chemistry and other scientific disciplines.

Kit Eaton

The ruling is part of an effort to untangle the mess left after the conviction of a state chemist, Annie Dookhan, whose mishandling of evidence affected as many as 40,000 cases.

By JESS BIDGOOD

Researchers are nearing a better understanding of the chemical reactions that created life on the young planet.

By NICHOLAS WADE

For the first time, researchers have created an oil-repellent surface using a cheap, common plastic.

By STEPH YIN

Names were proposed for four elements on the tables seventh row: Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

He shared the prize in 1996 for discovering a new form of carbon, nicknamed the buckyball.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

A chemist and physicist who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna as a teenager and built a distinguished academic career in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1957.

By SAM ROBERTS

What would you name a new element on the periodic table? Scientists will soon have to decide. New York Times readers had some suggestions.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

Element 113 is credited to scientists from the Riken institute in Japan, who will bestow an official name more than 12 years after they began their efforts.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

Researchers said they have developed a technique for creating a substance they are calling Q-carbon, which could have uses in medicine and industry.

By JONAH BROMWICH

For decades, aspiring bomb makers including ISIS have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. Theres a reason that they never have.

By C. J. CHIVERS

Dr. Heck shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules that are now used to make drugs, electronics and other products.

By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recalls how news of his Nobel Prize in Chemistry was broken to him and says he is honored to share the award with his colleague.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This weeks three Nobels reflect the globalization of science, which in the last century the United States often dominated.

By WILLIAM J. BROAD

With announcements of this years Nobel Prizes set to kick off on Monday, here is how eight past winners got the word.

As told to CLAUDIA DREIFUS

Dr. Betzig was one of three scientists given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 for a new class of microscope, capping a quest that started in 1982.

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS

As death nears, I am surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy, with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity.

By OLIVER SACKS

Dr. Roses early interest in the problem of protein disposal helped lead to the development of a new class of cancer-fighting drugs.

By KENNETH CHANG

Learning about physics and chemistry is often not easy, but through interactivity and other methods, technology can help simplify some concepts.

By KIT EATON

Three apps that use videos and interactive features to help explain the principles of physics, chemistry and other scientific disciplines.

Kit Eaton

The ruling is part of an effort to untangle the mess left after the conviction of a state chemist, Annie Dookhan, whose mishandling of evidence affected as many as 40,000 cases.

By JESS BIDGOOD

Researchers are nearing a better understanding of the chemical reactions that created life on the young planet.

By NICHOLAS WADE

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