Bawendi made his first quantum dot breakthrough during his postdoctoral years working under Louis Brus, one of the ...

Mike Dawson, a technology manager from Portland, was the winner of the "Jeopardy!" episode that aired Friday, so he returns ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat, the new head of the foundation that oversees the honours has warned.

Dylan’s paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odesa to the U.S. after the anti-Semitic pogrom of ...

The prizes were intended to honor those who confer benefit to mankind by promoting peace or by ... of physics, chemistry, or physiology or medicine (the economics award was founded later, in 1968).

The Partiet Sentrum, a Norwegian political party, faced backlash after it nominated incarcerated former prime minister and ...

A scientist who pioneered the technology used to discover the biggest selling drug in the world, AbbVie’s Humira, was among a trio who received this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In his inaugural address, President Trump said his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” But critics ...