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Science fields are improving at being more inclusive. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
"The groundbreaking discoveries. by this year s Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force can initiate the nerve impulses that allow us to perceive and adapt to the world," the Nobel jury said.
STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian today won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch, the jury said. “The groundbreaking discoveries. by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates have allowed us to understand how heat, cold.