Leonid Hurwicz, who shared the Nobel Prize in economics last year for developing a theory that helps explain how buyers and sellers can maximize their gains, has died at age 90, a spokesman said...

Al Gore is endorsing Barack Obama and promising to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him _ the presidency. In a letter to be e-mailed to Obama supporters, the former vice president and Nobel Prize winner wrote, “From now through Election...

University of Utah geneticist Mario Capecchi got a bonus after winning the Nobel Prize for medicine last fall: He learned he has a younger sister.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who rang the first alarm bells over the ozone hole issued a warming about climate change on Saturday, saying there could be “almost irreversible consequences” if the Earth warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius...

A Nobel Prize winner has retracted a paper published in 2001 about the sense of smell.

The 87-year- old British Novelist Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for literature, proving an official wrong, who had once remarked about her inefficiency to do so. Ironically, she found out about her prestigious award from a reporter who...

Edmund S. Phelps who is a professor at Columbia University won the Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday for his work explaining the relationship between inflation and unemployment, producing theories that helped revolutionize the way the Federal...

# The germ Bacillus Anthracis causes Anthrax. # Anthrax word derived from the Greek word for coal, anthrakis. # A German scientist Robert Koch discovered this during the 1870s. He later won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or...

Based on the intriguing Holocaust Novel Fatelessness written by 2002 Nobel Prize Winner Imre Kertesz’s, the movie FATELESS tells the sordid tale of a 14 year old boy born to a Hungarian Jewish Merchant. It is entirely a movie depict the...

Are you a young scientist? And do you aspire to create your own research teams at European research centers? The pioneering 2005 European Young Investigator (EURYI) Awards scheme enables outstanding young scientists in any area of scientific...