This is the Guardian. It's Nobel Week, the time when some of the biggest discoveries in medicine and physiology,

chemistry and physics, are rewarded one of the most coveted prizes around.

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Oh, hello, this is Adam Smith calling from Nobel Prize.

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And this year has been especially dramatic, an accidental leak, career comebacks, and the story of a

teddy bear stuffed with cash.

So today on Science Weekly, we're giving you the low down on the Nobel Prize Science

all the way from the big blockbuster vaccine tech to the very, very, very small crystals in your TVs.

And we're going to find out how these discoveries will continue shaping our world for decades to come.

From the Guardian, I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

So it's Tuesday evening in Nobel Week and I'm joined by Science Correspondents Linda Gedes and Nicola Davis and of course both

friends of the podcast and you two have been covering Monday and Tuesday's prize

announcements so thank you both for coming on. How are you both doing?

Because I'm sure it's been a very, very busy couple of days. Yeah, it is an absolute

scramble because it's a real rush to get it all kind of written in in real time and often having absolutely no idea about the subject better that we're writing about.

Well Nicola, I was going to say sometimes

the science can be a bit formidable I was wondering if you have anxiety dreams the

night before. It depends which field you're covering I mean physics is always the one that

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