The science behind Canada’s ‘other’ Nobel Prize

by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor The Nobel Prizes are a bonanza for science communicators, as they give us a rare opportunity to talk about topics that would not otherwise come up in conversation. Canadians recently got a taste of this when Arthur B. Macdonald shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the media was suddenly — and rightly — interested in neutrinos. Today, in my last column for Science Borealis, I’m going to shamelessly piggyback on this wave of interest to do something I’ve wanted to do for a long time: explain the science behind another Canadian Nobel […]