Every autumn, a handful of surprise phone calls from Stockholm and Oslo send ripples across the globe. Every October, a handful of names suddenly dominate international headlines. Sometimes they are ...

Life imitated art Tuesday when "The Big Bang Theory" — the American TV sitcom, not the scientific explanation for how the universe began — entered the annals of Nobel Prize history. The announcement ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week. The awards are considered among the world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, ...

The awards were announced over the past week. By The New York Times Nobel Prize season is here. Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science, ...

Fighting for democracy in Venezuela. A one-sentence novel. Molecular structures used to contain toxic gases. Physics experiments that helped lay the groundwork for the cellphone. Groundbreaking ...

It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...