Furious about last year's Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in Oslo to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Beijing has taken aim at Norway's emblematic salmon, plunging exports to the Asian giant ... Read more

Nobel laureate Jules Hoffmann, whose father helped foster his study of bugs, said his decades of research into the immunity of insects could enable scientists to find a cure for human disord... Read more

Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman had expected to be awarded in earlier years, but when the news of his Nobel Prize for Medicine win was communicated on Monday, he had already passed away. <... Read more

One of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine - Ralph Steinman of Canada - had died of pancreatic cancer just days before.

The new laureates were Bruce Beutler of the Uni... Read more

The announcement for the coveted Nobel Prizes have begun. As expected, the American scientist rule the roost!

This year, one half of the Nobel for Medicine has gone to <... Read more

Three scientists shared the 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize for their work on the immune system which the jury said opened up new prospects for curing cancer and other diseases.

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Nobel season for the year 2011 opens today with the announcement in Stockholm of the Medicine Prize, to be followed over the course of a week by the awards for physics, chemistry, literature... Read more

This year's Nobel season is set to kick off with the Medicine Prize to be announced on Monday. The prestigious awards for Peace and Literature both tipped to be coloured by the Arab Spring. ... Read more

The Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once wrote in his autobiographical book (What do you care what other people think?): "When I see equations, I see letters in colors - I don'... Read more

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely be in the running for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize along with the vibrant protest movements across the Arab world and Russian human rights activist... Read more