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A French microbiologist and an American biochemist have become the first women to jointly win the Nobel Prize in…

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr. Denis Mukwege, who has spent many years treating and…

A Swedish court has convicted Jean-Claude Arnault of rape, months after sexual assault and harassment allegations…

The Swedish Academy announced on Friday that it will not be giving out a Nobel Prize in Literature this year due to…

After waiting nearly a week to acknowledge that he had won the Nobel prize in literature, the words “winner of the…

Last week, 75-year-old harmonica master Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature “for having created new poetic…

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, rounding out a list of ten other men announced in…

Alice Munro — the author behind The Lives of Girls and Women, The Moons of Jupiter and Friends of My Youth — was…

With the Nobel Prize ceremony now a few days behind us, it might be worth asking, "Where the fuck do all these…

"She is from New York. She is Jewish. She is a woman," wrote one of the graduate programs to which Rosalyn Yalow…

[Yangon, Burma, November 5: A woman sits by a campaign poster hung for the upcoming election in Myanmar, which many…

85-year-old University of Cambridge professor Robert Edwards has won the Nobel Prize for inventing in-vitro…

When Nobel prize winner Dr. Carol W. Greider first made her breakthrough discovery in 1984, she put on Springsteen…

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded this morning to two American academics, one of whom, Elinor Ostrom, is the…

Four women — Herta Mueller for Literature, Ada Yonath for Chemistry, and Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider for…

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"At 100, I have a mind that is superior – thanks to experience – than when I was 20" — Rita Montalcini, neurologist…

• John McCain's had some more time to think about John Lewis's words of caution about the level of racial intolerance…

Gloriously salty bitch and Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing gave an interview to Time and she was hilariously cranky…