Scientists Win Nobel Medicine Prize for Discovery Leading to mRNA Vaccines
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, scientists credited with discoveries leading to the development of mRNA vaccines, received the Nobel Prize.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, scientists credited with discoveries leading to the development of mRNA vaccines, received the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Foundation withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran for this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies.
The Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani sent a letter this week to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating authoritarian Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the Nobel Peace Prize, on the grounds that Erdogan allegedly “single-handedly averted a global disaster” in Ukraine.
French author Annie Ernaux, whose pro-abortion novella Happening was recently made into a movie, won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature and used that pulpit Tuesday to lecture men on their behavior, cautioning they need to mend their ways now and stop preventing women from reaching their full potential.
French author Annie Ernaux, whose pro-abortion novella “Happening” was recently made into a movie, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the award committee commending the “courage and clinical acuity” of her writing.
Transgenderism advocates who claim that there are more than two sexes have perhaps “missed” basic classes in biology, a Nobel laureate has suggested.
According to the Daily Beast, a former employee of Bill Gates said the billionaire thought that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was his ticket to being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
China’s state-run Global Times expressed disappointment with this year’s crop of “anti-China” Nobel Prize nominees in a Friday editorial, although it grudgingly allowed that the World Food Program (WFP) was a “safe choice” for Nobel Peace Prize winner because it would not offend anyone.
Joe Biden was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday by a British anti-Brexit campaigner and Labour MP who claimed the Democrat is a “calming influence” in U.S. politics.
TEL AVIV – Israel was ranked the safest country to be in during the pandemic, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement citing statistics from the Deep Knowledge Group (DKG).
Swedish teenage climate alarmist Greta Thunberg is one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Scandinavian country’s so-called alternative to the Nobel Prize.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, often referred to as the “Father of DNA,” has been stripped of several awards and dumped by the lab he led throughout his career after he made remarks on the connections between race and IQ in a recent PBS documentary.
JERUSALEM — More than a decade before the Nazis seized power in Germany, Albert Einstein was on the run and already fearful for his country’s future, according to a newly revealed handwritten letter.
William Nordhaus’s proposal for climate change is straight out of the Trump administration playbook: impose tariffs on cheaters.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering an official increase in the ‘safe’ limits for radiation. Naturally, the very notion has caused liberal heads to explode like Fat Man and Little Boy.
V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate whose precise and lyrical writing in such novels as “A Bend in the River” and “A House for Mr. Biswas” and brittle, misanthropic personality made him one of the world’s most admired and contentious writers, died at his London home, his family said. He was 85.
“I want to get it finished, the prize I want is victory for the world … that’s the only prize I want,” he said.
Eighteen House Republicans signed a letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee Wednesday formally nominating President Trump for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
Some economically-illiterate moron just hijacked Joseph Stiglitz’s email, submitted a really embarrassing article on the economics of Trump’s departure from the Paris Agreement, and actually got it published under his name.
Rock and folk legend Bob Dylan has been accused of lifting sections of his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech from a SparkNotes.com summary of ‘Moby Dick.’
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest cited Obama’s 2009 acceptance speech at the Nobel ceremony, arguing that he successfully used American diplomacy to advance the country’s values around the world.
Donald Trump won a Republican White House, Senate and House because he led a rebellion against the Democrats’ embrace of Silicon Valley’s business model, which profits from global trade, offshore labor and foreign skilled workers.
(AFP) – The study of “strange states” of matter, which may one day yield superfast computers, earned British scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday. The trio, all based in the US working
While President Barack Obama celebrated Labor Day with his G-20 colleagues in China, black Americans were left to ponder why they are economically worse off than when he first took office.
An Israeli physicist may have proved one of Stephen Hawking’s most prominent theories about black holes, a groundbreaking new study published this week in one of the world’s top science journals claims.
Ynetnews reports: Elie Wiesel never lived in Israel, but on Sunday the country mourned the death of the esteemed author and Nobel peace laureate as though it had lost a national icon. A frequent visitor who was fluent in Hebrew, Wiesel
TEL AVIV – After 40 years, Israeli researchers may have found proof of Stephen Hawking’s most mind-boggling theory on black holes that could finally win the British physicist a Nobel Prize.
Ynetnews reports: At the age of 16, while Amir Goldenthal’s friends were busy with matriculation exams, he was at the end of the first year of undergraduate physics – and starting his doctorate. The unprecedented decision by the heads of
A University of Texas professor opposed to campus carry says he will put a note in his fall syllabus informing armed concealed permit holders they are not welcome to take his classes.
At the height of his career Rudyard Kipling was Britain’s most popular writer. The first Briton to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, he remains the youngest ever winner.
For economists, who often disagree with one another and get their forecasts wrong, the idea of a Nobel Prize for economics remains controversial after 75 years. This year’s winner of the “Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”
Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when she won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature for her work that portrayed the cruel reality of living in the Soviet Union. She documents experiences of between 500 and 700 people for each book.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the favourite for the Nobel Peace Prize, according to the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Kristian Berg Harpviken. Mrs Merkel, whose pro-migration policies have already seen the outbreak of violence, indigenous population evictions, and
A British Nobel laureate, Sir Tim Hunt, 72, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on cell division, was forced out of honorary positions at University College London (UCL), the Royal Society, and the European Research Council (ERC) after
My hero of the week is 72-year old Nobel-prizewinning scientist Sir Tim Hunt who this week went public at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Korea on the three main problems he has encountered during a lifetime working with
Actor Al Pacino is being praised for removing himself from the stage adaptation of a novel written by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, after becoming aware of the author’s support for Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, whose life was the subject of the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, and his wife Alicia were reportedly killed in a car crash in New Jersey on Saturday. Nash was 86; Alicia Nash was 82.
Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul says ISIS represents the closest thing the world has seen to a “Fourth Reich” and urges world leaders to expand the military campaign against them to ensure their “annihilation.”