Nobel Prize

Nobel winner warns China is ‘nanoseconds’ behind the US in quantum race

The US, Europe and China are all vying to build quantum computers with practical applications

The Nobel Committee said. that Joel Mokyr used historical observations to identify the factors needed for sustained growth driven by technological innovations, while Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt developed a mathematical model of creative destruction — an ongoing process in which new and better products replace the old.

Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win 2025 Nobel economics prize for work on innovation and growth

[STOCKHOLM] Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Mond...

Machado has been in hiding in Venezuela since 2024, when electoral authorities allied with President Nicolas Maduro declared Maduro’s reelection in a vote widely seen as rigged.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado revived Venezuela's opposition

Married to a constitutional lawyer and mother of three, Machado impresses both experts and ordinary citizens with her work ethic and ability to connect with voters

The Nobel Norwegian Committee awarded Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado the Peace Prize for her fight to restore democracy and defend freedom.

Venezuela’s Machado gets Nobel Peace Prize 2025, drawing White House criticism of ‘politics over peace’

The committee makes its decision ahead of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal under Trump’s peace initiative

The Nobel physics prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and includes a prize sum totalling 11 million Swedish crowns  that is shared among the winners.

Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics in action

Past winners of the Nobel physics prize include some of the most influential figures in the history of science, such as Albert Einstein

The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (from left) Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, are being announced at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Oct 6.

US, Japan-based trio share medicine Nobel for immune work

[STOCKHOLM] Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the immune system that have led to new research and work on therapies for cancer and autoimmune d...

(L-R) Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson are winners of the 2024 Nobel economics prize “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.

Nobel economics prize goes to researchers of prosperity

The economics prize has been dominated by US academics since its inception

The 53-year-old Han, author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win sparks Korean publisher stock rally

News of an author from the nation winning the award for the first time boosted most Korean stocks related to books or publishing

South Korean author Han Kang was awarded “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” says the award-giving body.

South Korea's Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel literature prize

After peace, the literature award tends to garner the most attention, thrusting authors into the global spotlight and yielding a spike in book sales