Your Rundown of the Science Nobels, and Europa Clipper Is Delayed

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

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Everything you need to know about last week’s physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine Nobels. COVID could raise the risk of heart attacks and strokes years after original infection. Hurricane Milton causes tornadoes across Florida and delays the launch of Europa Clipper. Recommended reading: How Does Sharing a Nobel Prize Work? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-chemistry-physics-and-medicine-nobel-prizes-can-be-shared-and-how-that/ Why Hurricane Milton Caused So Many Tornadoes https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-hurricane-milton-caused-so-many-tornadoes/ NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Carries Special Cargo: A Poem https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-europa-clipper-mission-carries-special-cargo-a-poem/ E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Anaissa Ruiz Tejada with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.1	The winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes were announced last week, so let's start with a quick little laureate rundown. Last Monday, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Victor Ambrose
0:59.8	and Gary Rovkin for the quote, discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene
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1:14.6	DNA is, of course, the molecule that carries our genetic code.
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1:41.3	Messenger RNA, or MRNA, which got a nod in last year's
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1:50.7	actually carries these protein coding instructions. MicroRNA helps control gene expression
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