Richard Robson, Kitagawa and Yaghi win Nobel Prize for discovery similar to bottomless 'Harry Potter' handbag; Here's what it meansThree scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating new molecular structures. These structures can trap large amounts of ga...
08 Oct, 2025, 10.38 PM IST
Nobel Prize 2025 in Chemistry awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson & Omar M. Yaghi for development of 'metal–organic frameworks 'The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honours Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi. Their work on metal-organic frameworks revolu...
08 Oct, 2025, 03.38 PM IST
Google’s triumph on the Nobel stage resolves a 50-year-old mysteryAlphaFold 2, an AI model developed through Google’s DeepMind initiative, cracked the code for predicting complex protein structures from am...
13 Oct, 2024, 08.51 PM IST
Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka's new book to be inspired by dramatic events in Sri LankaThe author said that he is setting his next book in the early 2000s.
04 Nov, 2022, 08.20 AM IST
Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka lets ghosts of Sri Lanka's past speakKarunatilaka, 47, started writing it a decade ago, soon after the country's long civil war ended.
03 Nov, 2022, 09.06 AM IST
Nobel Prize 2022: French author Annie Ernaux bags Nobel Prize in literatureFrench author Annie Ernaux, known for her autobiographical writing about courage and clinical acuity, won the Nobel Prize in literature thi...
06 Oct, 2022, 06.12 PM IST
Salman Rushdie earns a place in Queen's jubilee list, will be named 'Companion of Honour'The Booker Prize-winning author will be honoured for his service to literature.
02 Jun, 2022, 09.58 AM IST
When the world revolves around cooking & eating: The foods that nourish and nurture Nobel laureatesAbhijit Banerjee becomes the rare Nobel laureate to write a cook-book 'Cooking To Save Your Life'.
21 Nov, 2021, 06.46 PM IST
The Covid vaccine helped world resume a sense of normalcy. Will it bag the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday?Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman are being seen as potential winners.
01 Oct, 2021, 07.04 PM IST
British Indian chemist Shankar Balasubramanian in Millennium Technology Prize winning team for revolutionary DNA techSir Balasubramanian and Sir Klenerman co-invented the Solexa-Illumina Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology enabling fast, accur...
19 May, 2021, 08.32 AM IST
Nobel Prize ceremony to be held online this year, laureates to get their medals in their countriesThe laureates will receive their medals and diplomas next week.
02 Dec, 2020, 01.48 PM IST
Nobel Prize in medicine jointly awarded to Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles M Rice for discovery of Hepatitis C virusThe discovery of the scientists allowed the rapid development of antiviral drugs directed at hepatitis C.
05 Oct, 2020, 04.30 PM IST
Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer for 'The Nickel Boys', becomes rare author to be honoured with the prize for consecutive booksThree years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel 'The Underground Railroad.'
05 May, 2020, 10.19 AM IST
Eastern group on the trail of Kerala spicesEastern group has announced a novel competition to discover the origins and the lost traditions about various spices in Kerala.
06 Aug, 2015, 09.31 PM IST
6 Indian-origin authors in New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2014Indian-origin American surgeon and author, Atul Gawande as well as historian Ramachandra Guha are among the authors.
03 Dec, 2014, 01.16 PM IST
- Indian team was close to Nobel in medicine
An Indian researcher at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad believes that he and members of his former group ...
05 Oct, 2006, 02.19 AM IST
- US doctors win medicine Nobel
Americans Andrew Z Fire and Craig C Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for discovering a method of turning off sele...
03 Oct, 2006, 12.00 AM IST