7 h. ago How this year’s Nobel Prize winners heard they won – and why some ignore the call

Five of this year’s nine science winners were in the US when the news broke - some were fast asleep

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8 h. ago A knock at the door. A call from a strange number. Here's how the Nobel Prize winners heard they won

This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from late-night phone calls and door knocks

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9 h. ago Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water.Susumu Kitagawa, of Kyoto University, Richard Robson, of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, of the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Chemistry Nobel winners’ work likened to magic handbag from Harry Potter

Three scientists won the Nobel for developing material that can be used to capture carbon dioxide and harvest water from desert air

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13 h. ago Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery.Susumu Kitagawa, at Kyoto University, Richard Robson, at the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, at the University of California, Berkeley, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Can Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize – and who nominated him?

The US president claims he has ended ‘seven wars’ - even though many of the conflicts are still taking place. Experts tell Maira Butt that Trump is unlikely to win, but not to rule him out

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30 h. ago 9 reasons why Donald Trump won't win the Nobel Peace Prize (unless committee abandons its values)

Donald Trump thinks he should win the Nobel Peace Prize, but he also knows that he won’t

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30 h. ago Photos show Mary E. Brunkow waking up to the news she is a Nobel winner in medicine

Ross Colquhoun woke up his wife Mary E. Brunkow to tell her she won a Nobel Prize in medicine. She was one of three scientists who won the Nobel for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies.

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34 h. ago Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husbandOut on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise – he had won the Nobel prize in medicine.The Nobel committee had been unable to reach the immunologist, whose phone was on airplane mode as he was on a hiking and camping trip, but finally got through to the couple early on Tuesday morning, Swedish time. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago ‘The surprise of my life’: British scientist John Clarke among Nobel Prize in Physics winners

John Clarke is one of three Nobel Prize winners in physics for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunnelling

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35 h. ago Scientists in US awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum mechanics discovery

The scientists’ discovery could transform how we use mobile phones, cameras and even fibre optic cables

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37 h. ago Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everydayThe Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics.John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactableThe Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray.Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of Australia’s best novels then disappeared for decades. Even she wasn’t sure why

A new biography unravels one of Australia’s great literary mysteries and comeback stories, and teases out details of the troubled early years that informed the author’s devastating studies of domestic despotsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn 1966 Elizabeth Harrower was on the brink of literary fame. Critics hailed her fourth book, The Watch Tower, as one of the year’s most important Australian novels, alongside The Solid Mandala by her friend Patrick White. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Harry Kippax wrote that “one can be grateful to have had in twelve months two such additions to the small body of distinguished Australian novels”. An ABC reviewer said Harrower’s “brilliant” book was “one of the best Australian novels I have read for a long while”.Seven years later White won the Nobel prize for literature. By then Harrower had written another novel but withdrawn it from her English publisher, disappointed by his reaction. After some false starts she stopped writing and all...

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60 h. ago Nobel medicine prize awarded to scientists for immune system discovery

Nobel winners unravelled a new way the body keeps the immune system in check

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60 h. ago Nobel Prize in medicine awarded for immune system breakthroughs

Three scientists honoured for research on what prevents immune cells from attacking the body

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61 h. ago Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research

Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the bodyThe Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for their work on how the immune system is kept in check and prevented from attacking our own body.Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi have been awarded the prize “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago The Nobel Prize in medicine will be announced Monday, starting this year's awards

The 2025 Nobel Prizes are starting Monday with the medicine prize being announced by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

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4 d. ago How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the futureWhat happens when an internationally bestselling historian, a Nobel peace prize-winning journalist and a former politician get together to discuss the state of the world, and where we’re heading? Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medieval and military historian best known for his panoramic surveys of human history, including Sapiens, Homo Deus and, most recently, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Maria Ressa, joint winner of the Nobel peace prize, is a Filipino and American journalist who co-founded the news website Rappler. And Rory Stewart is a British academic and former Conservative MP, writer and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast. Their conversation ranged over the rise of AI, the crisis in democracy and the prospect of a Trump-Putin wedding, but began by considering a question central to all of their work: how to live a good...

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5 d. ago The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week. What to know about the prestigious awards

The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week

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