Nobel Prizes

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First Trailer for Herbert Nordrum's 'Growth of the Soil' Set in Norway FirstShowing.net12:56

Earlier today

‘A Prison of Survival’: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ales Bialiatski on Life Behind Bars in Belarus The Moscow Times10:39

Hans Petter Moland Talks ‘Epic Love Story’ That Defined the Nation as Norway’s Oscar Submission ‘Growth of the Soil’… Variety09:59

China’s scientific rise is being driven by returning expertise – especially chemists Chemistry World Magazine09:44

Nobel laureate and AI guru Demis Hassabis to speak at summit in Dublin next month Sunday Business Post07:25

Nobel Prize winner urges Europe to boost competition and AI capacity IPE Real Assets07:15

New animation series about Nobel Prize discoveries launched The Nobel Prize (Press Release)03:29

Yesterday

The ecosystem divide: why Indian bright minds thrive abroad but stall at home The Hindu23:05 10-Sep-26

The Galien Foundation Announces Inaugural Prix Galien Japan Forum & Awards Ceremony PR Newswire (Press Release)20:00 10-Sep-26

Sigrid Undset: Scholar, storyteller and future saint America Magazine19:16 10-Sep-26

Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times The Marginalian17:39 10-Sep-26

Albert Lasker Award for Researchers Who Deciphered the Mechanism of Uncontrollable Sleep Bursa.ro17:05 10-Sep-26

Rude lessons: on the U.S.-Canada trade dispute, lessons for India The Hindu14:52 10-Sep-26

Ig Nobel Prize celebrates 3D printing with a mosquito proboscis Electronics Weekly12:07 10-Sep-26

Venice4Palestine flies the flag of Palestine at the Venice Film Festival - Venice 2026 Cineuropa11:18 10-Sep-26

In banner ACS year for chemistry department, MacMillan and Chirik receive awards Princeton University09:42 10-Sep-26

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says 10% risk of human extinction from AI 'not unreasonable' Anadolu Agency07:04 10-Sep-26

BBC presenter speechless as 'kill all humans' confession made live on air Daily Star01:56 10-Sep-26

Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang takes the stage at Berlin Philharmonie The Korea Times01:37 10-Sep-26

In the last 7 days

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain 3 Quarks Daily13:49 9-Sep-26

Terence Tao: AI companies are harming mathematics New Scientist12:42 9-Sep-26

Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang takes the stage at Berlin concert hall The Korea Times11:11 9-Sep-26

Dau | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review Ioncinema10:58 9-Sep-26

The Anthropocene was rejected as a geological epoch – but the idea is still changing how we see the world The Conversation (UK)06:58 9-Sep-26

Why the super-fun Ig Nobel prizes bring serious value to science Nature.com05:52 9-Sep-26

Japan’s 20-year Ig Nobel winning streak continues thanks to people blowing their noses SoraNews2423:04 8-Sep-26

Janet Yellen, Nobel Winner Philippe Aghion set for ‘Great Minds’ Season 6 The Korea Herald18:53 8-Sep-26

Cockroach Milk, How to Blow Your Nose, and Mosquito Printers: The Ig Nobels of 2026 WIRED17:27 8-Sep-26

Stealing Candy From Children, Splash-Proof Urinals and Buried Panties, Oh My! Here Are the… Smithsonian Magazine17:15 8-Sep-26

Al Gore Was Right The Revelator10:02 8-Sep-26

Azerbaijan honors Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar with ‘Shohrat’ Order Hurriyet Daily News05:39 8-Sep-26

Cate Blanchett wins prestigious Japanese art award The Stage05:11 8-Sep-26

Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy Win $95,000 Praemium Imperiale Award ARTnews Magazine05:06 8-Sep-26

Quanta’s Thomas Lin Trusts the Public Can Handle Complex Ideas Inside Higher Ed04:02 8-Sep-26

An Antidote to the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma” The Marginalian22:10 7-Sep-26

Hong Kong woos global scholars as West tightens China scrutiny Nikkei Asian Review22:03 7-Sep-26

Edvard Moser, Nobel laureate neuroscientist, on How Your Brain Knows Where You Are 3 Quarks Daily12:46 7-Sep-26

Cockroach milk and splash-free urinals among 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners Dexerto.com11:32 7-Sep-26

Top Economist Fires Back at JD Vance Over Milton Friedman — ‘If He Bothered to Listen to Friedman, He Might Learn a… Benzinga08:16 7-Sep-26

Where the Royals Went to School Town & Country Magazine07:13 6-Sep-26

Non-Fiction: The Universe Of Asghar Qadir Dawn19:32 5-Sep-26

Trumpiana: Paper panther strikes again The Times of India10:43 5-Sep-26

'The Key' to Investing is Not That Complicated, Expert Says Kiplinger.com09:08 5-Sep-26

The Rich More Likely To Snatch Candy From A Baby, A Formal Definition Of Kissing, And Cockroach Milk Win The 2026 Ig… IFLScience07:27 5-Sep-26

Weird and wacky Ig Nobel Prize winners CBBC Newsround02:12 5-Sep-26

Arieh Warshel first Nobel Prize winner to receive Taiwan Employment Gold Card Taiwan News00:34 5-Sep-26

Memorial Chief Warns Russia Will Jail More People, Send Them to Ukraine Front After Elections Kyiv Post19:37 4-Sep-26

‘You are shaping the future here,’ Aoun tells new Northeastern faculty News @ Northeastern15:29 4-Sep-26

2026 Ig Nobels honor cockroach milk, interspecies kissing, taunting venomous snakes, and more Scientific American15:06 4-Sep-26

Win a Pair of Tickets to José González Live Phoenix New Times13:32 4-Sep-26

Russia rights group boss fears post-election crackdown Macau Business12:58 4-Sep-26

Nobel laureate receives Gold Card in historic first Taipei Times11:50 4-Sep-26

Quiz, AI and Lab Visits During Nobel Calling Stockholm The Nobel Prize (Press Release)11:07 4-Sep-26

Cockroach milk and underwear studies win Ig Nobels at first ceremony held outside U.S. Fortune11:06 4-Sep-26

Urinal Dynamics Win Ig Nobel Prize FYFD11:04 4-Sep-26

Oxford researchers win Ig Nobel Prize for study of kissing This is Oxfordshire11:04 4-Sep-26

Ada Yonath obituary: Crystallographer who overcame ‘impossible’ challenge of mapping the ribosome Nature.com11:00 4-Sep-26

Turkey detains 10 over alleged aid to 2016 coup defendant Turkish Minute10:24 4-Sep-26

Award-Winning Underpants University of Zurich (Press Release)09:24 4-Sep-26

Optimised urinals and buried underwear at 2026 Ig Nobels RTL Today07:08 4-Sep-26

Cockroaches producing energy-rich milk bag this year’s chemistry Ig Nobel prize Chemistry World Magazine06:46 4-Sep-26

Hideki Shirakawa, who shared chemistry Nobel for discovering conductive polymers, passes away… Chemistry World Magazine06:29 4-Sep-26

Ig Nobel prizes go to scientists studying cockroach milk, nose-blowing, more CBS News06:28 4-Sep-26

Sweet-stealing capitalists and the definition of kissing: The 2026 Ig Nobel award winners euronews05:33 4-Sep-26

The weirdest and wackiest studies revealed in the Ig Nobels - including research on how to blow … MailOnline05:25 4-Sep-26

Cockroach milk, evolution of kiss, nose-blowing: Scientists win Ig Nobel prizes Hindustan Times05:20 4-Sep-26

Swiss soil underpants study win Ig Nobel Prize Swiss Info05:14 4-Sep-26

Late Japanese Researcher Wins Ig Nobel Prize for Nose-Blowing Jiji Press04:25 4-Sep-26

Dutch scientist wins Ig Nobel prize with 1,000 buried pairs of underpants NL Times04:18 4-Sep-26

Arieh Warshel first Nobel Prize winner to obtain Taiwan Gold Card Focus Taiwan04:11 4-Sep-26

Nose-blowing, cockroach milk studies win Japan Ig Nobels Asahi Shimbun03:24 4-Sep-26

Studies on cockroach milk and nose-blowing win this year’s Ig Nobel The Independent03:15 4-Sep-26

The remarkable life of JJR Macleod, co-discoverer of Insulin The Orkney News02:21 4-Sep-26

Oligarchy and Redistribution: A Reply to Paul Krugman CounterPunch02:00 4-Sep-26

In the last month

Japanese scientist posthumously wins Ig Nobel prize for nose-blowing study The Mainichi23:55 3-Sep-26

Nine Nobel Nominations, no Nobel: How an Indian physicist changed modern physics—while others got the credit The Financial Express20:15 3-Sep-26

City of Poetry: Tijuana’s 28th Annual National Poetry Prize open for submissions KPBS20:12 3-Sep-26

Scientists studying cockroach milk, nose-blowing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science PBS Online17:07 3-Sep-26

A Nobel-Winning Psychiatrist Just Issued A Terrifying Warning About Trump, And We Should All Be Paying Attention BuzzFeed16:34 3-Sep-26

Top Psychiatrist Delivers Disturbing Warning About Trump The Daily Beast16:30 3-Sep-26

Canadian who helped design splash-free urinal is proud of his weird science award CBC.ca16:09 3-Sep-26

Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes Nature.com14:10 3-Sep-26

Teams studying kissing and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science The Irish News13:47 3-Sep-26

2026 Ig Nobel Prizes Chemical & Engineering News13:23 3-Sep-26

Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science MailOnline13:11 3-Sep-26

Cockroach Milk Proteins Churn Out an Ig Nobel Win The Scientist13:10 3-Sep-26

Mosquito Blood-Sucking Organ Turned 3D-Printing Nozzle Wins Ig Nobel The Scientist13:10 3-Sep-26

'Soiled' undies and vicious friends research honoured at Ig Nobels ABC Online13:02 3-Sep-26

Kissing apes, anti-splash urinals: This year's Ig Nobels showcase surprising science NPR13:01 3-Sep-26

Only democratic government can provide stability for oil investors, Venezuelan opposition leader says Internazionale.it12:11 3-Sep-26

Ada Yonath, chemistry Nobel winner who mapped the ribosome, dies at 87 Chemistry World Magazine10:30 3-Sep-26

LIVE: Ig Nobel Prize ceremony 2026 for odd and funny scientific studies Associated Press - YouTube10:09 3-Sep-26

Nobel laureates, European politicians urge Turkey to free Öcalan Turkish Minute09:38 3-Sep-26

Nobel Peace Prize winner claims Trump is ‘more dangerous’ now The Independent09:26 3-Sep-26

Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 MailOnline07:55 3-Sep-26

Nobel-Winning Japanese Scientist Hideki Shirakawa Dies at 90 Jiji Press07:51 3-Sep-26

Ig Nobel Prizes land in Switzerland amid stricter US border policy Swiss Info05:20 3-Sep-26

Nobel-Winning Psychiatrist Issues Chilling New Warning About Trump: ‘It’s Worse’ HuffPost (US)04:09 3-Sep-26

The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech The Marginalian00:25 3-Sep-26

The doctor from Pasar Road who wanted Malaysians (and everybody else) to be safe from nuclear war Malay Mail22:16 2-Sep-26

Vitamin K, a lifesaver for newborns, is being abandoned by parents Angry Bear19:02 2-Sep-26

‘Lots of researchers were doing very unusual things – I created an awards ceremony to celebrate … Chemistry World Magazine10:26 2-Sep-26

STAT Plus: The Ig Nobel Prizes, long held in the U.S., head to Europe due to Trump policies STAT04:36 2-Sep-26

From AI dream to crystal: the largest set of AI-designed materials ever synthesized Behavioural and Social Sciences at Nature Research04:08 2-Sep-26

ASEAN should aim for South China Sea of peace, Timor-Leste president says Jakarta Post20:15 1-Sep-26

The Ig Nobel Prizes have always been held in Mass. This year, they’re leaving the US amid Trump … Boston Globe17:53 1-Sep-26

Tulane University Researchers Apply AI to Find Superconductors Government Technology16:42 1-Sep-26

Japan's Jfe Engineering to use Nobel-winning material for carbon capture Nikkei Asian Review11:20 1-Sep-26

Ada Yonath, Nobel laureate and crystallographer, dies at 87 Chemical & Engineering News10:27 1-Sep-26

Asta Kamma August stars in Norway’s Oscar entry The Crop of the Field Sweden Herald09:23 1-Sep-26

Nobel Laureate’s “Requiem” for Hungarian Science is a Damning Verdict the World Must Hear Hungary Today06:05 1-Sep-26

Former Primus manager now booking concerts in East Bay, Napa, Santa Cruz Mercury News13:21 31-Aug-26

Nobel Prize, Israel Prize laureate, Ada Yonath, dies aged 87 Jerusalem Post12:25 31-Aug-26

A Nobel Prize for Syria? Newlines Magazine10:40 31-Aug-26

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Latest news on Nobel Prizes, covering awards in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, economics, laureates, and Alfred Nobel's legacy.

The Nobel Prizes represent the world's most prestigious recognition of human achievement, honouring exceptional contributions across six disciplines. Since the first awards in 1901, more than 990 individuals and 28 organisations have received these accolades. The 2025 laureates include John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for physics, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi for chemistry, and Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai for literature.

Each October brings fresh anticipation as announcements reveal the year's winners, with ceremonies held in Stockholm and Oslo on 10 December—the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. The prizes carry significant monetary awards, currently standing at 11 million Swedish kronor per category. Recent years have sparked debate about category boundaries, particularly when machine learning pioneers received physics honours, prompting discussions about whether computational sciences deserve recognition within traditional frameworks.

Behind the prestige lies Alfred Nobel's remarkable story. The Swedish chemist and industrialist invented dynamite in 1867, creating safer construction methods whilst accumulating vast wealth. When a French newspaper mistakenly published his obituary in 1888, labelling him "the merchant of death", Nobel resolved to leave a different legacy. His will established prizes to celebrate those conferring "the greatest benefit to humankind", transforming his fortune into perpetual recognition of human excellence.

The prizes continue Alfred Nobel's vision of honouring scientific discovery, literary achievement, and peace-building efforts. From Marie Curie's pioneering radiation research to Martin Luther King Jr's civil rights leadership, laureates have shaped modern civilisation. The awards reflect changing global priorities whilst maintaining rigorous selection processes through Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

NewsNow's Nobel Prizes feed delivers comprehensive coverage of announcements, laureate profiles, ceremony highlights, and expert analysis. Whether tracking breakthrough discoveries, following acceptance speeches, or exploring the stories behind each winner, our continuously updated feed ensures you remain informed about these celebrated achievements that advance knowledge and promote human progress.

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