The Israeli-American’s first book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, was a worldwide bestseller with revolutionary ideas about human error and bias Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who …
Human Rights Watch says that hundreds of rights activists, journalists, lawyers, opposition politicians and others are imprisoned in Belarus on politically motivated charges and face …
Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences names scientists behind quantum dot technology as 2023 winners in email The names of two American chemists and a Russian …
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier share £823,000 prize for work on electron dynamics in matter Three scientists have been awarded the 2023 Nobel …
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share the £823,000 prize announced by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockhom Two scientists have been awarded the 2023 …
Electric chopsticks and ‘jamais vu’ studies also scoop awards recognising research that makes people ‘laugh, then think’ From using dead spiders to grip objects to …
Foundation backtracks on earlier announcement that representatives from Russia, Belarus and Iran would be invited The Nobel Foundation has reversed its decision to invite ambassadors …
Jailed campaigner Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and Center for Civil Liberties win award that will be seen as condemnation of Putin Live updates: Nobel peace prize …
Follow latest updates and reactions as Nobel committee is due to unveil 2022 winners of prize Last year’s winners were two campaigning journalists from the …
The French author of mostly autobiographical work takes the prestigious books prize for the ‘courage and clinical acuity’ of her writing The Nobel prize in …
Follow latest updates as this year’s winner is decided by Swedish writers, linguists, literary scholars, historians and a prominent jurist Last year’s winner was Abdulrazak …
Svante Pääbo wins 2022 award for discoveries concerning genomes of extinct hominins and evolution A Swedish geneticist has been awarded the 2022 Nobel prize in …
‘Kill’ order to revoke news website’s certificates of incorporation made in final days of Rodrigo Duterte’s rule The Nobel prize-winner Maria Ressa has said she …
Abdulrazak Gurnah said imperial attitudes were fuelled by the government withholding details of Britain’s colonial past The Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he suspects …
Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was seen recently in fatigues commanding troops on the battlefront, and insists that war was …
Filipina and Russian attend Oslo ceremony despite Ressa’s legal cases and are first journalists to win since 1935 Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were …
Maria Ressa, joint winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace prize says media worldwide should join forces in “fighting for facts” amid threats to press freedoms …
Programme to allow those with prestigious global prizes to get fast-track visas dismissed as ‘elitist’ and a ‘joke’ A post-Brexit scheme to draw the world’s …
Philippine journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaul Social media platforms are biased against facts and …