Simply Put: The elephant in the room

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Three awarded for work on extremely short light pulses to better study electrons

The research can have applications in the field of medicine, semiconductor technology 

Simply Put: No-Bail Laureate

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

Their approach has revolutionised empirical research, says Nobel committee

Simply put: Tax cuts and more tax cuts

Simply Put: Hepatitis C virus

Stem cell breakthrough gets Nobel in medicine

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

Simply put: The missed Nobels

Simply Put: Extinction, not evolution

Explained: The cancer therapy that got two immunologists a Nobel

The immunologists’ immune checkpoint therapy has revolutionised cancer treatment

2016 Chemistry Nobel awarded to scientist trio for their work on molecular machines

Their inventions include a tiny lift, artificial muscles and miniscule motors

“Rich countries need to consume and produce less animal-source foods”

World Food Prize winner Lawrence Haddad on the impact of climate change on food systems

Nobel in Physics for men who defined time

David Wineland and Serge Haroche awarded

Drug delivery pioneer Robert Langer receives engineering ‘Nobel’

Nearly two billion lives have been touched by his inventions

James Watson to auction his Nobel Prize for discovering double helix structure of DNA

The money would go to the institutions where he studied and worked

Three find their way to Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine

Their work explains the "GPS" in our brains

2022 too short, too far: How did the economy fare last year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Protests grow in Bangladesh over splitting Grameen Bank

Opposition, microfinance activists and US senator voice concern over move

Finding meaning in a career in science: Experts share their stories

Without this 360-degree view of climate science, we are likely to keep breeding narrow-minded climate communicators 

Planetary Boundary pioneer Johan Rockstrom wins 2024 Tyler Prize for environmental achievement

Planetary Boundary framework determines limits within which humanity can safely operate within natural world

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 …

A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C — and a path forward

The development of treatments over the past 30 years reflects the amazing progress the field has made in tackling hepatitis C in a relatively …

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

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