Oct 07 Watch News Wrap: Supreme Court Considers Giant Cross in Mojave Desert In other news, the Supreme Court took up the separation of church and state in a case involving public lands in California, and two Americans and an Israeli received the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Continue watching
Oct 05 Nobel Prize for Medicine Goes to American Trio Three Americans were named the 2009 winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Monday for their work identifying a key growth enzyme that has important implications for research on aging, and for diseases like cancer. Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch News Wrap: Bomb Strikes U.N. Office in Pakistan In other news Monday, five people were killed in a suicide bombing at the U.N. World Food Program office in Islamabad, and three Americans were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Continue watching
Jan 13 Chu Vows to Fight Global Warming at Confirmation Hearing By Admin, PBS News Hour Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu said at a hearing Tuesday that if he is confirmed as energy secretary, he plans to aggressively pursue policies to combat global warming. Continue reading
Dec 26 Watch Nobel Laureates Trace How the Economy Began to Fall Apart The subprime mortgage meltdown and subsequent downward spiral caught some officials and the public off guard. Yet there were some clear indicators of the impending crisis. Paul Solman speaks to two Nobel award-winning economists about how the economy began to… Continue watching
Nov 20 Watch Worsening Economic Crisis Stops Short of Depression Nobel laureate and economist Robert Solow offers his thoughts on the severity of current economic turmoil and the chances of the situation leading to another Great Depression in a conversation with Paul Solman. Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch U.S. Economist Krugman Wins Nobel Prize in Economics The last of six 2008 Nobel Prizes was awarded Monday to Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for his research on free trade and globalization. Krugman discusses his research and theories with Jim Lehrer. Continue watching
Oct 08 Study of Glowing Jellyfish Nets Nobel Prize for Trio By PBS News Hour One Japanese and two American scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering and developing a glowing jellyfish protein that has revolutionized the way researchers study disease and normal development in living organisms. Continue reading
Oct 06 European Scientists Share Nobel Prize for Medicine By PBS News Hour Three European scientists will share this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine, for identifying two deadly sexually transmitted viruses, the Nobel committee announced Monday. Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch Game Theorists Awarded Nobel Prize in Economics Three American researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday, honoring their developments in using game theory to examine financial market activity. One of the winners, Roger B. Myerson, provides an overview of their prize-winning work. Continue watching