Nobel Prize

Maria Corina Machado Injured Fleeing Venezuela

December 15, 2025 12:45 pm

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado suffered a fractured vertebra while fleeing Venezuela by boat last week to attend events linked to the award in Norway, her spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

The injury occurred during a perilous sea journey taken in defiance of a long standing travel ban imposed by Venezuelan authorities. Machado ultimately reached Oslo but arrived too late for the official Nobel Peace Prize ceremony held on Wednesday.

According to Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, doctors in Oslo diagnosed a fracture in her back after examining her upon arrival. The paper cited sources familiar with the matter and reported …

VinFuture Prize Marks 5 Years As A Global Beacon For Science

November 2, 2025 10:41 am

Five years after its founding, the Vietnam-based VinFuture Prize has become a global symbol of optimism and confidence in science serving humanity.

What began as an ambitious idea five years ago has become a global symbol of faith in science’s power to transform humanity. The VinFuture Prize, founded in Vietnam during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, is now marking its fifth anniversary as one of the world’s emerging platforms for honoring scientific breakthroughs that improve lives.

Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend, Chair of the VinFuture Prize Council, said the award represents a spirit of optimism and a belief

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Maria Corina Machado Nobel Peace Prize 2025

October 10, 2025 8:06 am

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria CorinaMachado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts defending democratic rights amid authoritarian rule. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 10, 2025 in Oslo, citing her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

The Nobel Committee praised Machado’s resistance against Venezuela’s authoritarian drift under President Nicolás Maduro. Her recognition comes despite her being barred from running for president in 2024 and currently living in hiding under threat of arrest.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, …

László Krasznahorkai Wins 2025 Nobel Prize In Literature

October 9, 2025 9:38 am

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai has been named the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, honoured for a lifetime of writing that the Swedish Academy described as “compelling and visionary” and capable of reaffirming “the power of art in the face of apocalyptic terror.”

The author, reached by phone while visiting Frankfurt, told Swedish Radio that the news left him “happy, calm and very nervous at the same time.”

Born in 1954, Krasznahorkai first gained international notice with his 1985 debut Satantango, a bleak yet darkly humorous portrayal of a collapsing rural community. The novel, later turned into a …

Scientist Discovers Nobel Prize Amid Montana Backcountry Hike

October 8, 2025 7:31 am

Dr. Fred Ramsdell was deep in Montana’s grizzly country on the final day of a three-week off-grid hike with his wife, Laura O’Neill, and their two dogs when the quiet wilderness was suddenly interrupted—not by a bear, but by an avalanche of text messages. His wife, staring at her phone, began shouting in disbelief: Dr. Ramsdell had won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

The immunologist’s phone had been on airplane mode, leaving the Nobel committee unable to reach him at the time. When Laura told him, “You’ve won the Nobel Prize,” his first response was a simple, incredulous, “I did …

French Nobel Prize Winner Calls For Protest Against Macron

October 10, 2022 4:36 am

French author awarded who was recently awarded a Nobel Literature Prize, Annie Ernaux on Sunday wrote an open letter supporting a mass protest against President Emmanuel Macron called by the country’s left-wing opposition.

Organisers of the demonstration on October 16 have already come out to accuse Macron of failing to tackle soaring prices for energy and other essentials and of insufficient action against climate change.

‘Emmanuel Macron is seizing this inflation to widen the wealth gaps, and boost the profits of capital, at everyone else’s expense,’ said the letter in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

‘And this shock is allowing …

Cloud Labs: Science Experiments Have Gone Remote

October 8, 2022 8:52 am

So much happened in the world of science this week. The United Kingdom got a new Science Minister, a rare blood group that could solve some of the tough cases of mother-fetus blood incompatibility was discovered, and the Swedish Academy named the 2022 Nobel Prize winners. However, what stood out the most, is learning of a technology that enables scientists and researchers to perform experiments remotely. Without any confinements to a lab bench or hands stuffed in plastic gloves, they can now keep experiments running from the comfort of their homes through what is known as cloud labs.…

French Author, Ernaux Wins Nobel Literature Prize

French Author, Ernaux Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

October 7, 2022 5:06 am

French writer, Annie Ernaux, has been announced the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, for what the Nobel committee chair submitted was an ‘uncompromising’ 50-year body of work exploring ‘a life marked by great disparities regarding gender, language, and class.’

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the prestigious honour is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (£807,000). Prof. Carl-Henrik Heldin, chair of the committee, said the 82-year-old’s work was ‘admirable and enduring.’

He said she used ‘courage and clinical acuity’ to tell semi-autobiographical stories that uncover “the contradictions of social experience …