Key takeaways Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for building economic models from the ground up — based on the decisions of households and firms — that help central banks and governments stabilise economies against shocks. Illustration: WHAT …
Key takeaways Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 7 for discoveries that reveal how chemical reactions can favour one mirror-image molecule over another. Their work cracked a century-old puzzle in asymmetric synthesis. French chemist Henri B. Kagan …
Key takeaways Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 6 for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from deep space. The Belgian-American physicist receives 12 million Swedish crowns. Decades under the ice The …
KEY TAKEAWAYS Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for optogenetics, a technique that uses light to switch individual nerve cells on and off. The discovery began with a light-sensing protein in pond algae and …
In 2018, off the coast of Washington, the world witnessed an extraordinary display of maternal grief that transcended species.