Two UC Berkeley faculty members and a UC Santa Barbara Nobel laureate were awarded Breakthrough Foundation prizes for their ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots — tiny particles just a few nanometers in diameter that can release very bright colored ...

Physicist David Gross said the rising risks of nuclear war could leave humanity with just decades left.

When Omar Yaghi picked up the phone at Frankfurt Airport to learn he had just won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he called the feeling "indescribable." The recognition honors Yaghi — a Palestinian ...

One of the most fundamental questions in biology is how a single fertilized egg produces the diverse cell types making up the body – from neurons and skin to muscle and blood – that bear the same ...

Max Planck revolutionized physics with quantum theory and championed doubt as the driving force of scientific progress.

President Donald Trump took credit for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded this month to three scientists. “A major question in physics is the maximum size of a system that can ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — U.S. military-funded scientists won two 2025 Nobel Prizes for groundbreaking research that could improve battlefield intelligence and navigation, strengthen military ...

On Tuesday Nobel Prize winner Richard Axel resigned as co-director Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his decade-long association with convicted sex ...

Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross recently claimed humanity might not survive the next 50 years because of nuclear ...

Some of the most credible voices on the future of our planet aren't environmental activists or policy bloggers - they're ...