Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel Prize Laureates Honored

Posted 12.10.2011

On Saturday, December 10, this year's Nobel Prize laureates will be honored in two ceremonies in the Swedish and Norwegian capitals. The three laureat...

Where Are the Gay Nobel Prize Winners?

Laurence Watts | Posted 12.15.2011

Laurence Watts

I love what I have come to call "Nobel Prize Week." For me it's up there with the Grammys and Oscars -- until, that is, the other day, when something occurred to me: I can't think of a gay Nobel Prize winner. Not even a dead one.

Amazing Discovery Wins Nobel Prize

AP | MALCOLM RITTER and KARL RITTER | Posted 12.04.2011

NEW YORK — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating p...

Nobel Prize In Economics 2010

Posted 05.25.2011

The 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Peter Diamond of MIT, Dale Mortensen of Northweste...

Elie Wiesel, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela

The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Orhan Pamuk, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, Saul Bellow, Pablo Neruda ... all great authors honored by the Nobel Committee with a Nobel Prize in Litera...

Want to Sleep Better? Learn to Dream Better

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

Sharon Glassman

Strengthen your dreams and you'll sleep better. Sounds kinda cart-before-the-horsey, right? But frolicking in a field of dream-unicorns kicks Ambien's...

World's Best Universities (PICTURES)

Posted 05.25.2011

This week, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) published its 2009 list of the best 500 universities. The annual ranking, which is in its...

Charles Kao, Willard Boyle And George Smith: 3 Americans Share 2009 Nobel Prize For Physics

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK -- The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tu...

Vancouver, Multicultural Gateway To The World

Sunil Chacko | Posted 11.17.2011

Sunil Chacko

Compassion, forgiveness and interdependence were major themes at the dialogue. The reality that despite outward differences humanity is largely the same was brought home by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Krugman Talks About His Oval Office Meeting With Bush: "I Just Want To Know My Nickname" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Krugman appeared on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" Tuesday to talk about the day's bailout news. Krugman, who recently received the Nob...

Nobels awarded for AIDS, cancer virus research

AP | MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 11.17.2011

Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention in showing a viral cause for cervical cancer shared the Nobel P...