Oct 05 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal therapy plays major role in Nobel Prize for Medicine By Nsikan Akpan William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu win this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research into drug treatments for parasites. Continue reading
May 24 ‘A Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash and wife killed in taxi crash By Carey Reed John Forbes Nash Jr., the Nobel laureate and Princeton mathematician, whose life story was the inspiration for the book and movie "A Beautiful Mind," was killed in an car accident along with his wife in New Jersey Saturday morning, New… Continue reading
Feb 05 Watch 8:23 What ‘Gangnam Style’ can teach us about the Psy-chology of investing By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize winners Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi honor ‘forgotten children’ By Larisa Epatko Malala Yousafzai said she was “very proud” to represent her country Pakistan in winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and in being the youngest Nobel recipient at age 17. “Along with that, I’m pretty certain that I’m also the first recipient… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Looking back at the peace-promoting work of Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi – Part 1 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch How many Nobel Prize winners does it take to improve a light bulb? By PBS News Hour The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists who created the revolutionary LED light, which is 20 times more efficient than a standard incandescent bulb. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Jeffrey Brown to talk about the winners and… Continue watching
Oct 07 Nobel Prize in Physics illuminates accomplishment of blue LED inventors By Justin Scuiletti The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday to the inventors of the blue light-emitting diode, or LED, shining a light on the creation that solved the final puzzle piece to energy-efficient lighting. Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch News Wrap: Neuroscientists to share Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain’s ‘GPS’ By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for discovering the brain system that helps people orient themselves. Also, pro-democracy protests seemed to wane in Hong Kong. Talks have begun between the government… Continue watching
Oct 06 Pinpointing brain’s inner GPS leads to Nobel Prize in medicine win By Justin Scuiletti The research, started by scientist John O'Keefe in 1971 and continued by the husband-and-wife team of May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser more than 30 years later in 2005, aimed to explore the mechanics of how humans were able to… Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Nadine Gordimer, 90, Nobel-winning novelist who spoke out against apartheid By PBS News Hour Nadine Gordimer has died at the age of 90 at her home in Johannesburg. The Nobel Prize-winning writer and anti-apartheid activist used her pen to write damning indictments of South Africa's racial segregation. We look back at Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s 1987… Continue watching