1+ week, 4+ day ago   (280+ words) Opinion: The Nobel laureate who decoded the ribosome became an unlikely cultural icon, bringing science into classrooms and showing young Israelis, especially girls, what curiosity and persistence could achieve Ada Yonath won the Nobel Prize, I was in third grade…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (309+ words) Ynetnews Ada Yonath, the Israeli scientist whose groundbreaking research into the ribosome earned her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and helped transform scientists’ understanding of how antibiotics work, died Monday at the age of 87, the Weizmann Institute of Science announced…...