Nothing makes a scientist happier than for her discovery to be useful to people. But sometimes science also becomes complicit in the ill-treatment of human beings.
"Exciting news" was delivered Monday to two US-based scientists. The Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine has been awarded to David Julius and Ardem.
for a mortgage, can they afford to start repaying their student loan as early as they might have to? and so there are challenges there, but there may be a balance we could have. we have been saying for some time now that maintenance grants are really important. despite the debate about cost, more students have chosen to sign up in england this year. branwenjeffreys, bbc news, staffordshire. two american scientists who discovered how our bodies sense the warmth of the sun, or the feel of a hug from a loved one, have won the nobel prize for medicine. david julius and ardem patapoutian used chilli to identify the sensors that enable the body to feel temperatures and pressure, which could lead to new ways of treating pain. james clayton has more details from california. the challenge that we set out to solve in the lab
bodies feel warmth and touch have won the nobel prize for medicine. we will speak live to one of them late in the programme. it has been a pretty torrid day for facebook. two interconnecting stories that together have wiped $7 billion of mark zuckerberg s wealth. we will come to each of them in turn. let s start with a first, the whistle blower. two weeks ago the wall streetjournal published the facebook files, a damning series of reports that were based on a cache of the company s leaked internal documents. they reveal that facebook was aware of problems it was having with its apps, including the negative effects of misinformation and the harm that was being caused, especially to young girls, by instagram. we now have the identity of that whistle blower. francis
come a bit later in the programme a very different kind of story from what we ve just seen. we will reveal how a dash of chilli was a recipe for success in this year s nobel prize for medicine. first i want to bring you the story. in the first major sign of how the us presidentjoe biden will tackle trade tensions with china is trade representative has outlined us strategy for working with beijing. the us and china all the worlds two biggest economies and for years now there have been tariffs on more than half of what they sell to each other. in a speech she said she would employ all tools to try to change the dynamic between the us and china on trade. she said she would allow some us companies to apply for in exemption from punitive us tariffs but she refused to rule out further tariffs being imposed if there were further disagreements in there were further disagreements in the future. l115 there were further disagreements in the future. ,, ., ., ., the future. us china trade and econo