This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

Since the Nobel Prizes were created in 1901, just 25 women have received awards in the sciences. This year, that number stayed the same: All seven laureates in physics, chemistry, and physiology ...

Last year, jailed Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of Iranian women. Winners are awarded a medal, diploma, and 11 million ...

Here are the winners of the six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science ...

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...

As the world gears up for Monday’s announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, it’s worth reflecting on whether the prize still carries the same value it once did. While the Nobel is ...

While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an ...

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 ...

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors. Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen praised the "extraordinary efforts" of the Nihon ...

It won the prize for its "efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons." LONDON -- Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward ...