STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is ...

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny pieces of genetic material that alter how genes work ...

The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for their work on quantum dots. Read our story here. Nobel Prize season approaches again ...

The Nobel prizes are presented to the laureates on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. The peace prize is handed out by the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee in Oslo, ...

FILE - South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Nobel Prize committee first called Karikó, a Penn Medicine researcher who has worked with Weissman on RNA since 1997. He said she relayed the message to Weissman, but they both thought it was ...

Marie Curie was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won in physics for her research on radioactivity. She won another Nobel in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of ...

The Nobel Peace Prize has been suspended 19 times before, including during both world wars. Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, says withdrawal would be a mistake in 2024.

In 2024, the Norwegian Nobel Institute registered 286 candidates for that year's Nobel Peace Prize — 197 individuals and 89 organizations. The year 2016 saw the highest number of nominations ...

The Nobel Prize in physics comes with an 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) cash award. The laureates will receive their awards on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

Nobel Prize winner Dan Weissman, 64, filmed the moment he told his parents he had won. Penn Medicine In a heartwarming call, Dan Weissman filmed the moment his parents Adele, 90, and Hal 91 ...