6 h. ago Scientist learns of Nobel medicine prize when wife gets cellphone service during Rocky Mountains hike

A scientist was off the grid for weeks on vacation and got a tremendous surprise when he finally got a phone signal

Science

44 h. ago All the news and science from the 2025 Nobel prizes – podcast

This year’s Nobel prizes in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine have celebrated work that paves the way for the next generation of quantum technology, the creation of porous materials that have been compared to Hermione Granger’s handbag and the discovery of the hidden army inside us that helps to keep our immune system in check. To find out more, Madeleine Finlay talks to our science editor, Ian Sample, and correspondents Nicola Davis and Hannah DevlinRead more of the Guardian’s Nobel coverage Continue reading...

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68 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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4 d. 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

Events

4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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 w. ago Authorities say student who had been radicalized fired revolver at Colorado school, wounding 2

Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who had been radicalized by an extremist network fired multiple shots with a revolver at a suburban Denver school, wounding two classmates

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