Edmund Phelps is a knotty riddle for taxonomists. In the present day, with thinkers consigned to “left” or “right” on the basis of a few well-worn clichés, some would be tempted to class him as ...

His work paved the way for the discovery of the Higgs boson, which explained how particles acquire mass, solving one of the ...

Questions and answers with key voices in the field of chemistry. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three researchers who developed the lithium-ion battery. One of the three, Akira Yoshino, ...

Mario Molina, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on understanding the formation and decomposition of ozone in the stratosphere, died Oct. 7 at his home in Mexico City. He was 77.

At the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany, 1996 laureate Harold Kroto told the assembled students that science as a way of evaluating what is true is, for him, its most important quality. Steve ...

Signifying the urgent threat that a nuclear Iran portends for Israel and the rest of the world, Mr. Wiesel, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, directly addresses President Obama, Vice President ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...

We have evolved traits that will lead to humanity’s extinction, says Christian de Duve – so we must learn to overcome them We are the most successful species on the planet, but you think we will ...