Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for work that reinvents literary form through dialogue with the classics. Chinese readers and critics say her themes of solitude and desire speak directly to modern loneliness.
Physicists at Tsinghua University have run a clock driven by the nucleus of thorium-229, not its electrons, pushing precision measurement into new territory. The result, published in Nature, was achieved alongside a European team.
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, explaining how life's one-handed molecules may have emerged.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors two researchers who cracked a decades-old puzzle: how to make reactions produce only one mirror-image version of a molecule. The work traces back to a drug tragedy that harmed thousands of babies.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics honors Francis Halzen for turning a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into IceCube, a detector that caught high-energy neutrinos from deep space.
Three scientists won a Nobel Prize for turning brain cells into controllable switches, letting researchers press a button and watch a specific neuron drive behaviour. The idea was once dismissed as a joke.
Every October, the Nobel committee phones new laureates minutes before the world finds out. Some winners weep, some hang up thinking it is a scam, and some sleep straight through it.
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