Nobel Prize

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 …