South African jurist Navi Pillay, 85, has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her lifelong work defending international law. The announcement landed amid a storm: hours later, the United States sanctioned the International Criminal Court — where Pillay once served as a judge — …
Key takeaways Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced on October 8. The Canadian poet and classicist was honoured for an inventive body of work that fuses ancient Greek myth with modern life, making her the 19th woman …
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 …