At 5:10 a.m. on October 1, news director Macon Morehouse walked into her kitchen, powered on her computer and hit “start” on the coffeemaker she had preloaded the night before. It was game day for the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and she wanted to be ready when the announcement came from Stockholm, six time zones away.
It’s a ritual we follow every year at Science News; reporters and editors rise before dawn to cover the Nobels, the biggest prizes in science. Now that we’re all online it’s a bit simpler — no need to get out of pajamas.