Scientific News The Nobel Prizes Tell A Story About Scientific Discovery

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen

The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists. Read More

Penn is expanding its research in immunology — a field just honored with a Nobel Prize

University of Pennsylvania professor E. John Wherry is good friends with Fred Ramsdell, who was recognized earlier this month with a Nobel Prize for his research in immunology. Wherry recalled sitting ... Read More

Shimon Sakaguchi Reflects on How Hunting for a Mysterious T Cell Earned Him a Nobel Prize

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplan ... Read More

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio of scientists for immune discoveries

American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read More

Nobel Prizes this year offer three cheers for slow science

At a news conference that day, Clarke explained that he and his colleagues had “no way of understanding the importance” of their work. Read More

Scientists in US awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum mechanics discovery

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a team of scientists based in the U.S. for their landmark discovery in quantum mechanics. John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were handed ... Read More

An Off-The-Grid Nobel Win, And Antibiotics In Ancient Microbes

When the Nobel committee called, Fred Ramsdell did not pick up. Plus, searching ancient archaea for solutions to modern antibiotic resistance. Read More

UC Berkeley’s John Clarke wins Nobel Prize for discovery that led to iPhone, quantum computers

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. Retired UC Berkeley physics professor John Clarke and two former colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize ... Read More

VOX POPULI: The author who sparked a Nobel Prize winner’s love of science

Brown’s haunting imagination once lit a spark in a young Japanese boy who would grow up to win a Nobel Prize. Susumu Kitagawa, now a distinguished professor at the Kyoto University Institute for ... Read More