Oct 03 Trio wins Nobel Prize by using chemistry to 'evolve' the building blocks of life By Nsikan Akpan This year’s chemistry Nobel also comes with some political controversy, as one of the winners has been accused of promoting anti-Israel views. Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch 4:46 For the first time in 55 years, a woman shares the Nobel prize in physics A trio of scientists won this year's Nobel prize, including Canada's Donna Strickland--the third female recipient in history and the first in 55 years. Amna Nawaz speaks with Strickland about her research in laser amplification, what she would tell young… Continue watching
Oct 02 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to three pioneers in laser science By Vicky Stein Strickland is the third woman ever to win a Nobel prize in physics, and the first in more than fifty years. Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch 7:27 For this Nobel winner, fighting cancer began with his family Cancer treatment was for years dominated by just four techniques. But there is now a fifth category -- immunotherapy -- thanks to the revolutionary research of Jim Allison and Tasuku Honjo, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine on… Continue watching
Oct 01 James Allison and Tasuku Honjo, cancer immunotherapy trailblazers, take home 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine By Nsikan Akpan James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in in Medicine for a branch of medicine that calls on our immune systems to fight tumors. Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch 6:08 Witnessing the collision of two neutron stars is a 'textbook changer.' Here's why By Miles O'Brien Astronomers witnessed for the first time ever a rare collision of two dense neutron stars. The discovery began with an instrument called LIGO, which won this year’s Nobel Prize for its discovery of gravitational waves once predicted by Albert Einstein. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 9:43 Economics Nobel winner Thaler shed light on how real people behave By PBS News Hour University of Chicago scholar Richard Thaler was honored with the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his work questioning traditional assumptions that markets act rationally, and for taking human nature into account. Economics correspondent Paul Solman helps explain Thaler's theories,… Continue watching
Oct 05 Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature By Layla Quran The Swedish Academy announced the award Thursday, calling Ishiguro a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."… Continue reading
Oct 04 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 'cool' 3D pictures of bioarchitecture By Nsikan Akpan Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way to image biomolecules at cold temperatures. Continue reading
Oct 03 LIGO gravitational wave discoverers win 2017 Nobel Prize in physics By Nsikan Akpan Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics for leading the projects that discovered gravitational waves and proved an century-old Einstein theory. Continue reading