Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries related to the degrading and recycling of cellular components. The Karolinska Institute honored Ohsumi…
By MALIN RISING and NATHALIE ROTSCHILD Princeton University’s Angus Deaton has won the Nobel prize in economics for “his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare,” the Royal Swedish Academy of…
By PAUL SCHEMM, BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and KARL RITTER It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia’s newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had…
By DIDI TANG The time could not have been more hostile for Chinese scientists. Research came to a virtual halt and intellectuals were routinely persecuted. But Tu Youyou, then a…
By KARL RITTER and MALIN RISING Images of James Rothman and Randy Schekman, of the US, and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof are projected on a screen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday,…
By FRANK ELTMAN In this Friday, April 26, 2013 photo, actor Alan Alda listens during an interview at Stony Brook University, on New York’s Long Island. The film and television…
By LORI HINNANT and SETH BORENSTEIN This image released on Thursday March 21, 2013 released by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the most detailed map ever created of the…
Undated handout picture made available by the The Norwegian Academy of Science on Wednesday March 20, 2013 of Pierre Deligne winner of the 2013 Abel Prize. Belgian-born Pierre Deligne won…
