Chemistry Nobel 2021 goes to 2 scientists for environmentally friendly molecule building tool

Their creation paved the way for a completely new avenue to put together molecules, according to the Nobel committee

Simply Put: The elephant in the room

Three scientists bag Nobel for Medicine for innovative battle against parasites

While two of the scientists invented drugs for combating roundworm parasites, the third developed a drug to combat malaria

Physics Nobel 2021 to 3 for predicting climate change, building physical models for complex systems

Manabe and Hasselmann awarded for work in physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

US-based economists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work with ‘natural experiments’

Their approach has revolutionised empirical research, says Nobel committee

Simply Put: No-Bail Laureate

Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov had used fact-based journalism to speak truth to power in the Philippines and Russia and had done so at a …

Medicine Nobel 2021 to Julius and Patapoutian for work on stimuli and nerve impulses

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian discover heat receptors and ion channels that further our understanding on pain

Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

The duo were awarded for their efforts to curb sexual violence as a weapon of war and for seeking justice for victims

Making auctions work: The winning ideas behind this year’s Nobel Prize in economics

The 2020 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to two Americans, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, for their work in analysing auctions and how …

Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict

About 1 in 9 persons worldwide don’t get to eat enough, suffering food insecurity, or not having consistent access to the right foods to …

2020 Physics Nobel to trio for work on black holes

Roger Penrose showed black holes to be a direct consequence of Theory of Relativity; Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered a massive black …

Nobel Prize for chemistry for gene-editing: A gene engineer explains how it works

CRISPR has huge potential to transform how scientists can detect, treat and even eradicate diseases as well as improve agricultural products

French-American duo share 2020 Chemistry Nobel for ‘genetic scissors’

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools  

2020 Tyler Prize for the environment awarded to Indian economist who formulated Green Economy

Pavan Sukhdev, environmental economist, and Gretchen C Daily, conservation biologist, will share this year’s ‘Nobel Prize for the …

Simply put: Tax cuts and more tax cuts

My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics — here’s how his research on complex systems changed science

I am pleasantly surprised that the field of complex systems, which is quietly pushing at the frontier of theoretical research in physics, has …

2022 Economics Nobel awarded to trio for improving ability to avoid financial crises

Banks, by acting as intermediaries that accept deposits from many savers, can allow depositors to access their money when they wish, while also …

Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

Pääbo sequenced genomes of our extinct relatives Neanderthals and Denisovans; These discoveries resulted in novel insights into human …

Simply Put: Hepatitis C virus

Bob Dylan, the protest singer and social critic, wins Nobel Prize for Literature  

Dylan has been awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

2020 Nobel Prize in physics for work on black holes: An astrophysicist explains trailblazing discoveries

At the singularity, our conceptions of space, time and matter fall apart; resolving this issue is perhaps the biggest open problem in theoretical …

Stem cell breakthrough gets Nobel in medicine

British scientist John B Gurdon and his Japanese counterpart Shinya Yamanaka honoured

Simply put: The missed Nobels

Why the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics matter for me

The puzzle of who receives the novel prize is in itself a bit like an equation