Credit: Micheline Pelletier/Corbis/Getty Grit and determination feature in most scientific careers, but the Israeli structural biologist Ada Yonath surmounted more obstacles than most. Yonath was the first to grow crystals suitable for X-ray analysis that would reveal the structure of the ribosome — a macromolecular complex that functions as a factory for proteins in living
It was concerns over phishing online, rather than fishing outside off stump, that nearly scuppered Caleb Falconer’s hopes of a contract in The Hundred. At the time the Middlesex batting all-rounder did not have an agent, had not yet made a professional appearance and was thousands of miles from home, away with England at the
