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Joanne Chory, of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, is one of five scientists working in the U.S. who have been awarded the 2024 Wolf Prize. (Photo by Alberto Brevers/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) The winners of the 2024 Wolf Prize ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture ...

Call me a boomer, but these participation trophies have gone too far,” Stephen Colbert said before presenting himself with the First Annual Stephen Colbert Joke Prize.

As the winners of the Nobel Prizes for 2024 were announced this week, Newsweek has produced a map showing where the most winners have come from around the world since the first award in 1901. South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...

Every year, the bookies odds predict who might pick up the highest prize in literature. Every year, they're completely wrong. Tomorrow, the latest laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced as part of the Nobel committee’s rollout for ...

Harvard University's Claudia Goldin has won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on women in the labor market. She studies the changing role of working women through the centuries, and the causes of the persistent pay gap between men and women.