Scientific News The Nobel Prizes Tell A Story About Scientific Discovery

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large language models raises deep questions about the future of DeepMind. Read More

Q&A: Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdell on scientific exploration, research journey

Fred Ramsdell, one of the recipients of the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, sat down with science and health contributor Leilani Krantz to discuss his journey with scientific exploration ... Read More

Decades of Advancement, Discovery Honored in 2025 Science Nobel Prizes

From Oct. 6-8, the Nobel Foundation announced the recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics for advances in quantum mechanics, the prize in physiology or medicine for immune system breakthroughs and ... Read More

Researchers React to the 2025 Nobel Prizes

Michael Mina, an immunologist and chief scientific officer of YourBio Health wrote on X: Tregs for the win! Love to see immunologists win the Nobel Prize. The discovery of Foxp3 expressing ... Read More

James Watson, co-discoverer of the shape of DNA and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 97

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to ... Read More

This Nobel Prize is honoring what’s on Trump’s chopping block

John Clarke, center, toasts attendees during a celebration on Oct. 7 in Berkeley, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics showcases everything that works — or ought ... Read More

A list of this year’s Nobel Prize winners

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. OSLO — The awarding Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado brought ... Read More

5 Nobel-worthy scientific advances that haven’t won the prize

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 ... Read More

2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named

Stories describing what can happen when science is manipulated or misapplied are among the winners of the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did stories on science at ... Read More