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The Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist Who Pioneered Gene Editing
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, who discovered CRISPR’s gene-editing power, wants the technology to be standard of care for severe genetic diseases.
In Slightly Punk Move, Bob Dylan Will Formally Accept Nobel Prize, Won’t Deliver Lecture
He's going through Stockholm on tour, so it would have been awkward to duck the Committee.
Read Bob Dylan's Genuinely Very Humble, Moving Speech on Receiving the Nobel Prize
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"
Watch Patti Smith's Stunning Performance from Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Ceremony
Smith stumbled over the words to "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" in Dylan's absence. But that's not what's important here.
Colombia's president wins Nobel Prize despite failed peace deal
President Juan Manuel Santos has spent the last four years on a deal with FARC guerrillas that would bring peace to a country that has experienced civil war for five decades.
This Year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, Explained with Bagels, Pretzels, and Cinnamon Buns
We spoke to Nobel Committee member Thors Hans Hansson about how pastry holes can help us understand a groundbreaking scientific breakthrough behind this year's Prize for Physics.
Watch a Nobel-Winning Physicist Talking About Hunting Neutrinos in a Mine
In a live webcast, Arthur McDonald explains how to catch a neutrino.
How A Pair of Old Mines Helped Win a Nobel Prize in Physics
How do you avoid cosmic background radiation from skewing your research? Do your research a kilometre or more underground.
Mexican Student Interrupts Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Apparent Protest for Mexico's Missing
Identified as Adán Cortés Salas, 21, the student attempted to hold a red-stained Mexican flag before 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai as the Pakistani activist received the Nobel Peace Prize.
The War of Words Over the Nobel Prize
For the European Union, which won a Nobel Peace Prize today, the award is certainly some consolation from the pains of being in debt, even if the choice seems bizarre and - gasp! - political. Not surprisingly, politicians are making no attempt to hide...