Betrayal, ambition and the double helix: turning Rosalind Franklin’s story and the discovery of the structure of DNA into an ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how ...

Why is There No Nobel Prize in Maths? The Nobel Prize is the world’s most prestigious award for fields like physics, chemistry, and medicine. But there is no Nobel Prize for Maths. This unique ...

The Nobel Prize in economics this year went to three thinkers who show us why economies grow and how we can help them do so.

Former Harvard Economics professor Philippe M. Aghion won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on economic growth and innovation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Oct. 13.

The Nobel Peace Prize has now, perhaps inadvertently, validated that lineage. In honoring María Corina Machado, the world ...

Aghion’s and Howitt’s scholarship empirically demonstrates that robust patent systems stimulate technological advancement by aligning private rewards with the social progress they bring. In economies ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen Ning Yang, one of the most influential scientists in modern physics, died in Beijing on Saturday. He was 103. The prestigious Tsinghua ...

In the course of three days, six U.S.-based scientists won Nobel Prizes. Every one of them studied or now works at America’s public universities. Five were affiliated with or educated by California’s ...