David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper revealed how amino acids shape protein structure, a finding that could aid in drug discovery

Best known for "The Vegetarian," the novelist and poet was praised for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"

The grassroots organization, Nihon Hidankyo, was lauded for "demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"

US-based academics Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson won the 2024 Nobel economics prize "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres congratulated grassroots Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo on being awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. “The atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as the hibakusha, are selfless, soul-bearing witnesses of the horrific human cost of nuclear weapons,” he said in a statement. “While their numbers grow smaller each […]

New institutional economics (NIE) has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity and democracy. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (AJR) are well known for their influential cliometric work. AJR have elaborated earlier laureate Douglass North’s claim that property rights have been […]

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enabled machine learning and are key to the development of artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT

Two of the three science Nobel prizes in 2024 have been won by people working in AI, but does this mean that AI models are now vital for science?

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

The 2024 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has gone to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery that tiny pieces of RNA called microRNAs play a key role in controlling genes

Highlights: Kariko and Weissman's base modifications revolutionized mRNA, enabling rapid vaccine development mRN

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (!--ref1--) was jointly awarded to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun by the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Former US Vice President Al Gore and the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will share thi

The Nobel Prize for medicine this year has been awarded to three Europeans, Luc Montagnier, Francoise Barre-Sinoussi a

The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine has been announced! It has been awarded to researchers Elizabeth Blackburn , her st

It may have come a bit too late, but a very deserving Robert Edwards has finally been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medi

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 has been awarded with one half given to John O'Keefe and the other half

It's a Nobel moment for Artificial Intelligence. Purists often frown at the mention of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It has long been relegated to the periphery of science, dismissed by many as a mere novelty or, at best, a secondary discipline. But

The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given out this year and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million)

Hinton, often referred to as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” alongside Hopfield, an American scientist working at Princeton, have utilised principles from physics to create algorithms and neural networks that underpin today’s AI technologies

Project to encourage scientific skills of students

The discovery of microRNA changed the understanding of gene regulation

Physics Nobel Prize acknowledges the diverse foundations of AI

Nobel for determining protein structure recognises a big advance

A Nobel raises Korean prose to success levels of its drama and music 

The Nobel Peace for the selfless Nihon Hidankyo should help stir debates on nuclear disarmament

The 2024 Nobel recognises the need for ‘inclusive’ institutions

The three awardees regard social institutions as being less important than state institutions

AJR have emphasised the role of institutions in development but there has been criticism of this approach as privileging western liberal institutions

The AJR Eurocentric framework falls short of representing the Global South, oversimplifies history and ignores diverse development paths

We wish to honour all survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace, says Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while James Robinson is based at the Harris School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

The 2024 Economics Nobel laureates have argued that differences in the quality of economic and political institutions is what best explains the divergence in the economic fates of countries

Prof Geim addressed the 15th Convocation of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science (HITS).

When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize last week, 581 clinical trials involving miRNA had been registered in the U.S. alone

Biochemists were two of three who shared 1997 prize for work related to adenosine triphosphate

Biochemists were two of three who shared 1997 prize for work related to adenosine triphosphate

Several noted personalities such as Ramchandra Guha, Mahua Moitra, among others have now said that the Indian-origin economist does not have any Twitter profile.

NAS President Marcia McNutt, NAE President C. D. Mote, Jr., and NAM President Victor J. Dzau honored U.S. 2017 Nobel Prize recipients Barry Barish, Joachim Frank, Michael Rosbash, Kip Thorne, and Michael Young at a reception on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, April 18. U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) co-hosted the event.