Crick, Watson, and Wilkins James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the molecular structure of DNA. Their discovery of the ...

Some have criticised the Nobel Committee for allegedly snubbing Rosalind Lee, the colleague and wife of the Nobel laureate ...

The awards’ strict constraints often prompt frustration — if these prestigious prizes were created for the twenty-first ...

Crunch the numbers in any direction. Cherry-pick the years. The answer will always be the same: if the Nobel Committee has to snub somebody, it will be a woman.

This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to United States scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene ...

The Nobel committees seem to have an unfortunate habit of overlooking women and Black people when it comes to science – this ...

This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old ...

Over the years, Nobel prize medals have been stolen, dissolved and auctioned off. We trace what happened to them and the ...

David Baker of the University of Washington, and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on protein design and structure prediction. Read our ...

But now, in a surprise twist, the team that earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing CRISPR is asking to cancel two of their own seminal patents, MIT Technology Review has learned.

Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes last week, each so extremely surprising that, in the event’s long tradition, it makes people laugh, then think. The awards ...

Meteorologist Syukuro Manabe shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work modeling gases’ movement through a column of atmospheric air—in the 1960s. His 60-year-old research had proved ...