Nobel

Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had...

Maria Ressa, a Philippine Nobel laureate, was cleared of her final tax evasion allegation on Tuesday, marking the veteran journalist’s latest court triumph in her fight to avoid going to jail. Ressa, 59, grinned as the...

The Nobel Literature Prize was given to French novelist Annie Ernaux on Thursday. Annie Ernaux is renowned for her deceptively straightforward books that draw on personal experience of class and gender. The committee cited Ernaux, 82,...

She risks prison, he has buried several colleagues: Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia, two champions of the free press, will on Friday receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize honoring a profession...

No Nobel Prize for Literature will be given this year, because of a scandal over sexual misconduct allegations that has seen a string of board members resign from the board of the Swedish Academy that makes...

News Hour US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for his pioneering work to bridge the gap between economics and psychology, the jury said. “By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social...

News Hour As the North Korean crisis rekindles the Cold War-era threat of nuclear catastrophe, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize could honour efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons, several experts suggest. With tensions between...

News Hour: This year’s Nobel laureates can look forward to a rise of 12.5 percent in prize money as the finances of the foundation have improved after previous years of overspending, the Nobel Foundation said The...

News Hour: Nobel prize winner Bob Dylan said on Monday that unlike literature his songs were meant to be sung not read and that they only needed to move people, not to make sense. The Swedish...

News Hour: Bob Dylan on Saturday finally accepted his Nobel literature award in a secret meeting with the Swedish Academy, which honoured him for his poetry, local media reported. Asked by Swedish public broadcaster SVT if...