Oct 02 Three Americans win 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine for research on circadian clocks By Nsikan Akpan Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their research into what controls circadian rhythms. Continue reading
Jul 13 Liu Xiaobo, Nobel laureate and Chinese dissident, dies at 61 By Synclaire Cruel Liu died while serving an 11-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power” after co-authoring a pro-democracy manifesto titled “Charter 08.”… Continue reading
Oct 28 'It's hard to believe'; Dylan breaks silence over Nobel Prize win By Joshua Barajas After two weeks of silence, Bob Dylan has finally acknowledged his Nobel honor. In an interview with The Telegraph, the 75-year-old musician said it was "hard to believe" the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in literature. Dylan… Continue reading
Oct 13 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature By Larisa Epatko He’s gotten a presidential honor and performed for a pope. Now musician Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in literature. Continue reading
Oct 07 Colombian president gets this year's Nobel Peace Prize By Larisa Epatko Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to forge an agreement with FARC rebels to end the country’s 52-year civil war. Just last Sunday, Colombians rejected that landmark deal, sending it back to… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch 5:46 The amazing, complicated science of the Nobel winners explained By PBS News Hour A trio of scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating some of the world’s tiniest machines. Their nanorobots use extremely controlled movements to perform tasks that the creators hope will one day be useful in the world of… Continue watching
Oct 05 World's tiniest machines win 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize for three researchers By Nsikan Akpan Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa split the 2016 Nobel Chemistry Prize for building the world's smallest machines out of chemical molecules. Continue reading
Oct 04 Nobel physics winners defined new class of exotic matter By Nsikan Akpan The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics is shared by three scientists -- David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz -- for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Here's what that means. Continue reading
Oct 03 Why this Japanese scientist won a 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine for cell 'self-eating' By Nsikan Akpan Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries in autophagy. Wait, what's autophagy?… Continue reading
Jan 18 Listen to MLK's 1964 Nobel Prize lecture By Erik Andersen For the first time since it was delivered 51 years ago, it is now possible to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in its entirety. Continue reading