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$Indian scientists who contributed to the discovery of the gravitational waves described the Nobel Physics Prize win as \a dream come true.\$ Life

Nobel for gravitational waves a dream come true: Indian contributors

Indian scientists who contributed to the discovery of the gravitational waves described the Nobel Physics Prize win as...

3 Oct 2017 2:53 PM GMT

Goran K Hansson, centre, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, from top left, Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barrish and Kip S. Thorne. (Photo: AP)

Newsmakers

Nobel Physics Prize awarded to three scientists for work on...

Scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves.

3 Oct 2017 10:19 AM GMT

The Academy is known for its cloak-and-dagger methods to prevent any leaks, resorting to codenames for authors and fake book covers when reading in public. (Photo: AP)

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Winner of Nobel Prize for literature to be revealed on Thursday

Last year's winner, Bob Dylan, was the first singer songwriter to win the prestigious award, dividing the literary...

2 Oct 2017 11:07 AM GMT

Anna Wedell, chairman of the Nobel committee, center, and members of the committee Juleen Zierath, left, and Carlos Ibanez, announce the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine during a press conference at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 2, 2017. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three Americans for discoveries about the bodys daily rhythms. The laureates are Jeffrey c. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. (Photo: AP)

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Nobel for medicine give tin 3 Americans for body rhythm work

The laureates are Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.

2 Oct 2017 10:45 AM GMT

Professor Thors Hans Hansson gives a demonstration using a bagel to explain the work of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo: AFP)

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Bagels, pretzels, Boo! How to explain science Nobel winners' complex...

Nobel physics committee has a large staff of social media and web experts making sure the information they provide is...

1 Oct 2017 4:16 AM GMT

Freuds name was put forward 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize but he never won.(Photo: AP)

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Sigmund Freud and the Nobel Prize trauma

Freud's name was put forward 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize but he never won.

30 Sep 2017 9:18 AM GMT

Marc-Antoine Fardin, left, accepts his Ig Nobel Physics Prize from Nobel laureate Eric Maskin during ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge. (Photo: AP)

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Ig Nobel awardees answer real questions that are both funny and...

Awards are given out in ten categories ranging from economics and anatomy to medicine and cognition.

16 Sep 2017 6:12 AM GMT

Discourse

Nobel out of reach: Elusive desire for greatness

Dalit Bahujans have to be fed, clothed and cared for without adequate cultural or material dividends for the nation.

20 Oct 2018 8:13 PM GMT

Discourse

Nobel out of reach: Black scientist yet to make it to Nobel

Change can only be achieved through strong and effective government action, but by definition marginalised groups have...

20 Oct 2018 8:07 PM GMT

As with the other Nobels, nominations and deliberations are kept secret for 50 years, so its nearly impossible to know which way the prize committee is leaning each year. (Photo: AP)

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Climate, development tipped for Nobel economics prize

The Nobel economics prize was created by the Swedish central bank "in memory of Alfred Nobel" and first awarded in 1969.

8 Oct 2018 4:27 AM GMT

The trio used the same principles of evolution -- genetic change and selection -- to develop proteins used in a range of fields.

Newsmakers

Trio win Nobel Chemistry Prize for research harnessing evolution

Arnold, just the fifth woman to win the Nobel Chemistry Prize, won one half of the nine million Swedish kronor.

3 Oct 2018 11:34 AM GMT

In this 1988 image provided by Nokia Bell Labs shows Arthur Ashkin at the lab in Holmdel, NJ American Arthur Ashkin, Canadian Donna Strickland, and French scientist Gerard Mourou won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics announced on October 2, 2018, for work in laser physics. (Nokia Bell Labs via AP)

Science

Science fiction into reality: Nobel Prize honors laser work

Ashkin, entered the record books of the Nobel Prizes by becoming the oldest laureate at age 96.

3 Oct 2018 4:59 AM GMT