Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has called on Iran and the United States to find a peaceful resolution to the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program, warning that military action would harm ordinary people.

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.

Myanmar’s military junta extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention by one year Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years.

Indian authorities insisted that a controversial case against a jailed human rights activist will go forward, with one official saying Wednesday that a group of Nobel laureates pressing for his freedom have no respect for the law.

Willis E. Lamb Jr., a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose work on the electron structure of the hydrogen atom revolutionized the quantum theory of matter, has died. He was 94.

Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.

Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday he would give Al Gore, a Nobel prize winner, a major role in an Obama administration to address the problem of global warming.

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, law professor Alan Dershowitz and former CIA Director James Woolsey are among 25 religious, academic and legal figures calling on the U.S. to skip next year’s United Nations anti-racism conference in a full-page ad set to appear Thursday in four newspapers.

Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe won a major court battle Friday over a book he wrote more than 30 years ago detailing how Japanese soldiers persuaded and sometimes forced Okinawan civilians to commit suicide rather than give themselves up in the closing days of World War II.

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and 25 other Nobel laureates on Thursday condemned the Chinese government’s violent crackdown on Tibetan protesters and called on Beijing to exercise restraint.”We protest the unwarranted campaign waged by the Chinese...