Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize Medicine 2020 awarded to three researchers for discovery Hepatitis C virus, facilitating a cure

Discovery of the hepatitis C virus, the Nobel Committee said, had "made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives."

Nobel literature, peace prizes to be announced this month; no 'clear frontrunner' this year

Press freedom groups and climate activist Greta Thunberg are making Nobel Peace Prize buzz ahead of next week's award announcements.

Mercedes Barcha, muse, 'crisis manager' and wife of Gabriel García Márquez, dies at 87

As the Nobel laureate's wife and muse Mercedes Barcha dies, looking at the couple's love and relationship.

ESA's Cheops too look for habitable exoplanets: Where and when to watch the launch

Cheops, to be launched on Soyuz-Fregat rocket, is a new telescope whose name stands for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite.

Nobel Prize 2019: William Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Gregg Semenza win Nobel Prize in medicine or Physiology for explaining how body adapts to low oxygen levels

Their research focused on how our bodies respond to change in oxygen availability at the molecular level. The body needs oxygen to convert food into energy, it also detects and adapts at a cellular level when there is less oxygen available.

Nobel Live: I am those 66 mn girls who are deprived of education, says Malala

Child rights activists India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, along with 11 others will receive this year’s Nobel Prizes today.

Three win Nobel in chemistry for giving the microscope a sharper vision

"Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension," the academy said.