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Celebrity astronauts, pig lungs and cyborgs: the biggest tech and science stories of 2025

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Evening Standard

Hermione's handbag: Aussie chemist accepts Nobel prize

An octogenarian Australian scientist has accepted science's highest honour for groundbreaking research that's drawn comparisons from the world of Harry Potter.

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Our engineering team is making versatile, tiny sensors from the Nobel-winning ‘metal-organic frameworks’

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline materials. It recognized a revolution quietly reshaping how scientists capture, store and…

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A list of this year's Nobel Prize winners so far

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel announcements to a conclusion

The Independent UK

Metal-organic frameworks: Nobel-winning tiny ‘sponge crystals’ with an astonishing amount of inner space

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi on Oct. 8, 2025, for the development of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, which are tunable crystal structures with extremely high porosity. These are a class of materials that have truly changed the way scientists…

The Conversation

An Australian chemist just won the Nobel prize. Here’s how his work is changing the world

The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded for the development of metal–organic frameworks: molecular structures that have large spaces within them, capable of capturing and storing gases and other chemicals.

The Conversation

Humble Aussie Nobel winner gets straight back to work

Australia's modest Nobel Prize winner has gone back to work where he was treated to a vanilla slice by university colleagues and gave a first-year lecture.

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Nobel chemistry prize awarded for crystal materials that could revolutionise green technology

Three scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry for discovering a new form of molecular architecture: crystals that contain large cavities.

The Conversation

Chemistry Nobel winners’ work likened to magic handbag from Harry Potter

Three scientists won the Nobel for developing material that can be used to capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from desert air

The Independent UK

'Harry Potter' materials land three scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal–organic frameworks."

LiveScience

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery

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