This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

The prizes were intended to honor those who confer benefit to mankind by promoting peace or ... the fields of physics, chemistry, or physiology or medicine (the economics award was founded later, in ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...

The Partiet Sentrum, a Norwegian political party, faced backlash after it nominated incarcerated former prime minister and ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA ...

In his inaugural address, President Trump said his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” But critics ...

In a mindless spasm of fawning, the Nobel Peace Prize committee has turned the world’s most prestigious award into “a laughingstock,” said Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal.

In a post on X, the PTI said, “Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist.

Donald Trump wants one thing to solidify his legacy: A Nobel Peace Prize. After years of a cornucopia of abusive life choices – both self-inflicted and parentally initiated, Trump clings to a ...

“They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” Mr Trump said in February during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office. “It’s too bad. I deserve ...