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Nobel Prize 2026: Three Science Discoveries That Sound Straight Out Of Sci-Fi
This year's Nobel science winners were honoured for their research on tiny particles from space, using light to control brain cells, and studying mirror-image molecules.
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Indian-Origin Navanethem "Navi" Pillay Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2026
Pillay was born to Narrainsamy Naidoo and Santhama Naidoo in 1941 in a poor neighborhood of Durban in the Natal Province of South Africa. Her grandparents came from India as indentured servants to work on South African sugar plantations in the 1890s.
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"It Seems A Little Insane": Anne Carson Was Sweeping Her Kitchen Floor When She Won Nobel
In a conversation with the Nobel Prize just moments after the announcement, Anne Carson said she was sweeping the kitchen floor in her Reykjavik home.
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A Lost Brother, A Memoir Called 'Nox': Literature Nobel 2026 Winner Anne Carson's India Link
A memoir titled 'Nox' is considered one of her most profound writings. It's an elegy about her elder brother, Michael Carson, who spent years in India as she hoped to meet him one last time, in vain.
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Anne Carson Wins Literature Nobel 2026: From Poetry To Prose, A Look At Her Notable Works
Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for inventive work. Know about her notable books, poems, literary style and major achievements.
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7 Things Nobel Laureates Get Besides Medal And Money
While the medal and money may be the most visible rewards, the Nobel Prize offers something considerably harder to measure: A permanent place in history.
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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature 2026
Anne Carson is widely known for her translations of classical Greek literature, which heavily influences her work, which ranges from opera libretti to literary criticism and verse novels such as "Autobiography of Red" from 1998.
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Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2026 Awarded To Henri B Kagan, Kenso Soai
The chemistry Nobel, always the third prize to be awarded during Nobel week, followed those for medicine and physics announced on Monday and Tuesday.
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Gene-Editing, Sleep And Appetite Experts Eye 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
This year, data analytics firm Clarivate predicted that research into the hunger-regulating hormone GLP-1 was a contender for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, but the award went to neuroscientists.
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What Are Neutrinos? Why Nobel-Winning Researcher Francis Halzen Calls Them 'Ghost Particles'
Neutrinos are electrically neutral, extremely light subatomic particles that rarely interact with matter, allowing trillions to pass through the Earth and human bodies unnoticed.
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JNU's Nobel Link: Indian Professor's Research Helped Spark Prize-Winning Discovery
Prof Suneel Kateriya of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, who was a direct PhD student of Nobel laureate Peter Hegemann in Germany between 2000 and 2004.
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Francis Halzen Wins Physics Nobel For Astrophysical Neutrinos' Discovery
Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.
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Explained: How Is The Nobel Peace Prize Decided?
Some 287 candidates have been nominated, including 208 individuals and 79 organisations.
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Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth On How Optogenetics Advances Psychiatry And Neurological Treatments
Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the...
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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Medicine 2026: How Optogenetics Is Changing Brain Science
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries that enabled optogenetics, a technique transforming how scientists study brain circuits.
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Nobel Prize 2026: Three Science Discoveries That Sound Straight Out Of Sci-Fi
This year's Nobel science winners were honoured for their research on tiny particles from space, using light to control brain cells, and studying mirror-image molecules.
-
Indian-Origin Navanethem "Navi" Pillay Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2026
Pillay was born to Narrainsamy Naidoo and Santhama Naidoo in 1941 in a poor neighborhood of Durban in the Natal Province of South Africa. Her grandparents came from India as indentured servants to work on South African sugar plantations in the 1890s.
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"It Seems A Little Insane": Anne Carson Was Sweeping Her Kitchen Floor When She Won Nobel
In a conversation with the Nobel Prize just moments after the announcement, Anne Carson said she was sweeping the kitchen floor in her Reykjavik home.
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A Lost Brother, A Memoir Called 'Nox': Literature Nobel 2026 Winner Anne Carson's India Link
A memoir titled 'Nox' is considered one of her most profound writings. It's an elegy about her elder brother, Michael Carson, who spent years in India as she hoped to meet him one last time, in vain.
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Anne Carson Wins Literature Nobel 2026: From Poetry To Prose, A Look At Her Notable Works
Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for inventive work. Know about her notable books, poems, literary style and major achievements.
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7 Things Nobel Laureates Get Besides Medal And Money
While the medal and money may be the most visible rewards, the Nobel Prize offers something considerably harder to measure: A permanent place in history.
-
Canadian Poet Anne Carson Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature 2026
Anne Carson is widely known for her translations of classical Greek literature, which heavily influences her work, which ranges from opera libretti to literary criticism and verse novels such as "Autobiography of Red" from 1998.
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Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2026 Awarded To Henri B Kagan, Kenso Soai
The chemistry Nobel, always the third prize to be awarded during Nobel week, followed those for medicine and physics announced on Monday and Tuesday.
-
Gene-Editing, Sleep And Appetite Experts Eye 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize
This year, data analytics firm Clarivate predicted that research into the hunger-regulating hormone GLP-1 was a contender for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, but the award went to neuroscientists.
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What Are Neutrinos? Why Nobel-Winning Researcher Francis Halzen Calls Them 'Ghost Particles'
Neutrinos are electrically neutral, extremely light subatomic particles that rarely interact with matter, allowing trillions to pass through the Earth and human bodies unnoticed.
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JNU's Nobel Link: Indian Professor's Research Helped Spark Prize-Winning Discovery
Prof Suneel Kateriya of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, who was a direct PhD student of Nobel laureate Peter Hegemann in Germany between 2000 and 2004.
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Francis Halzen Wins Physics Nobel For Astrophysical Neutrinos' Discovery
Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.
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Explained: How Is The Nobel Peace Prize Decided?
Some 287 candidates have been nominated, including 208 individuals and 79 organisations.
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Nobel Laureate Karl Deisseroth On How Optogenetics Advances Psychiatry And Neurological Treatments
Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the...
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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Medicine 2026: How Optogenetics Is Changing Brain Science
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries that enabled optogenetics, a technique transforming how scientists study brain circuits.
