Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored ideas that changed the way we live. From discoveries that made headlines to inventions that quietly found their way into your pocket, kitchen, or telescope, ...

Science history is filled with brilliant minds whose contributions have gone largely unrecognized or deliberately overlooked.

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

Dr. Ada E. Yonath, a postdoctoral fellow at the Mellon College of Science in 1969, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her studies of the ribosome. “Ada Yonath at the Weizmann ...

The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize medal to the university where he proposed a ground-breaking idea that would change scientists’ understanding of the universe.

Discover how reading a quantum clock can surprisingly cost more energy than keeping it ticking, impacting timekeeping and ...