Last year's recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touc...

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insi...

The Nobel panel will announce the winner or winners of the medicine or physiology Nobel Prize today in Sweden at the Karolinska Institute i...

The new technique, which relies on small organic molecules and which is called "asymmetric organocatalysis" is widely used in pharmaceutica...

One half of the prize, worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.15 million), goes in equal parts to Manabe, who is 90, and Hasselmann for modell...

The sense of touch that our brains register is actually electron repulsion and the electromagnetic field that permeates everything and ever...

The more than century-old prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.15 million).

Scientists have converted human skin cells into specialised neurons that detect pain, itch, touch and other bodily sensations.