Scientists William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu have been rewarded for their unglamorous but vital work on parasites that has improved the lives of millions.
Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzi and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have jointly been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The discovery of the brains’ ‘internal GPS system” has earned three scientists the Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine.
The whole reason you’ve heard about the Higgs is because of a long-running effort to experimentally prove whether or not it existed. The very nature of experimental particle physics makes it a collaborative enterprise — proving a theory requires huge, expensive machines, international institutions, and lots of physicists.
Two US scientists have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the receptors that transmit signals such as light, taste or smell to cells.