Every autumn, a handful of surprise phone calls from Stockholm and Oslo send ripples across the globe. Every October, a handful of names suddenly dominate international headlines. Sometimes they are ...

Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article unpacks why the Nobel committee hesitated: Alfred Nobel’s rules, distrust of ...

Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for a theory that half of the people might not even have heard of. His Theory of ...

The Nation, a progressive magazine, formally nominated the city for its residents' resistance to President Donald Trump's ...

Since the Nobel Foundation's establishment at the turn of the 20 th century, 1,026 recipients have been recognized by the prestigious award across six categories for their contributions to the ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump. The gesture is seen as an attempt to gain Trump's support for her party in Venezuela's ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for “having explained ...

The US president insists Norway controls who gets the coveted prize, while the Norwegian government says it has nothing to do ...

Well, one thing you can say for sure, I am in good company. It looks like I’m not the only one that got hosed by the Nobel Committee. It seems the president of the U.S. of A. was also passed over for ...

Quantum mechanics has a way of sounding like pure philosophy until an experiment forces it into everyday language. In 2025, ...