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Deep rate cuts are necessary because the Fed's unprecedented hikes actually made inflation worse, Nobel-winning economist says
The Fed's higher borrowing costs discouraged home building, adding inflation pressure, Joseph Stig…
Filip De Mott
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A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Elon Musk for the Nobel Peace Prize
The billionaire was selected by Norwegian MP Marius Nilsen, who praised him for his "adamant defens…
Beatrice Nolan
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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations
Lise Meitner discovered how the process of nuclear fission works but she never won a Nobel Prize an…
Adam Barnes
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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A 2% global tax on all billionaires could raise $250 billion annually, a research report backed by a Nobel Prize-winning economist says
The EU Tax Observatory estimated that a 2% global minimum tax would raise close to $250 billion ann…
Grace Dean
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Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M Rice jointly win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
The Nobel Prize week has kicked off amid the coronavirus pandemic with the first of the awards go…
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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 'unusual' candidate who discovered that modern humans and Neanderthals had children together
Svante Pääbo's discovery of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA help us unpack what makes our own genes h…
Hilary Brueck
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Ever wondered why women get a raw deal at work? Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin has all the answers
Winning a Nobel Memorial prize in Economics is an extraordinary feat in itself but Claudia Goldin’s…
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David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian jointly win Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch
The Nobel laureates' discoveries have unlocked one of the secrets of nature by explaining the mo…
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Nobel Prize 2020 in Economics goes to Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wils…
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World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization that promotes food s…
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win the prestigious award for genome editing
The winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry are Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna…
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American poet Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Glück was born 1943 in New York and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a pr…
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering ‘the darkest secrets of the universe’
The Nobel Prize in Physics this year will be split between three laureates. One half goes to Roger …
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Nobel prize winner Svante Paabo's DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human
In other words, Paabo has been awarded the prestigious prize for having sequenced the genomes of…
PTI
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Former Fed boss Ben Bernanke wins Nobel Prize in economics with 2 others for their work on financial crises
Bernanke will share the prize with two other economists who have shown shown "why avoiding bank col…
George Glover
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Jared Kushner has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize a second time for his work on the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords sought to normalize ties between Israel and several Middle Eastern nations.
Cheryl Teh
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An Indigenous patrol in the Amazon won a 'Green Nobel' after they took gold miners operating on their land to court — and won
The Cofán's Indigenous patrol hunts for signs of trespassing gold miners, and has ultimately put th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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3 scientists have won the Nobel Prize for discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C
The 2020 honor went to 2 American scientists and a British scientist. Their discoveries paved the w…
Julia Naftulin
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Trump campaign misspells 'Nobel' Peace Prize in ad to fundraise off his nomination, which anyone can get
Trump celebrated his second nomination for the award earlier this week on Twitter, reposting severa…