Alzheimer’s researcher John Hardy calls the departure “an unmitigated disaster” for science and healthcare in Britain.

Among this year’s winners are a geneticist who revealed how plants respond to shade and a group of physicists who mapped the universe’s background radiation.

The Nobel Prize may garner the most attention, but there are other biomedical awards at least as lucrative.

Awards of $3 million each go to five researchers in the life sciences, recognizing their pioneering work on autophagy, DNA-damage response, Wnt signaling, and more.

Winners in the Physiology or Medicine category are trending older, even though they’re completing their award-winning research when they are about the same age, according to an analysis.

Studies on the sex lives of rats and the personality of rocks are among the projects celebrated this year.

The “Sentinels of Science” award recognizes especially productive peer reviewers.

Discoveries involving a key cellular oxygen-sensing pathway and hepatitis C virus replication are among those recognized with awards from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation this year.

This year’s awards honor discoveries on brain plasticity and the development of atomic force microscopy.

Caltech’s Frances Arnold is honored for her work on directed evolution.