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Rabindranath Tagore, Kailash Satyarthi NEW DELHI: The 2025 Nobel announcements have begun, with prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry already declared. Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries on immune tolerance, while John Clarke, Michel H Devoret, and John M Martinis won the…
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to David Baker for his pioneering work in computational protein design, while Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper jointly received the other half for…
Today, October 8, marks the birth anniversary of Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001), a pioneering Indian scientist whose work transformed the understanding of proteins and medical imaging. Despite his groundbreaking contributions, he never received the recognition he deserved, including a Nobel Prize or India’s prestigious Padma awards. Ramachandran’s work helped explain the fundamental structure of proteins,…
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was supposed to mark the dawn of a new era for the Marvel Cinematic Universe — the first film of Phase 5, a grand attempt to recapture the magic that ended when Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man signed off by dying rather than carry a dead franchise on his shoulders.And…
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke of the University of California, Berkeley, Michel H. Devoret of Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and John M. Martinis of the University of California, Santa Barbara, for their groundbreaking “discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in…
From theories that made video compression possible to the tantalising dream of an invisibility cloak, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics could go in several directions when it’s announced at 3PM IST today. After Monday’s Medicine Nobel — which honoured US and Japanese scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering the body’s…
FILE – President Donald Trump, left, speaks as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves upon leaving the West Wing of the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) If Donald Trump could trademark “peace,” he would. Ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on October 10, the president is campaigning harder…
Meet the 2025 Nobel laureates in Physiology The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance—a mechanism that prevents the immune system from attacking the body’s own tissues. Their work has transformed our understanding of immune…
The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards which are given in October every year to people or organisations for their outstanding contributions to their field of work. The prestigious prize is named after inventor, entrepreneur and businessman Alfred Nobel who in is will had stated that his fortune should be used to…
Every year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine honours people who help us understand how the human body works — and how to fix it when it doesn’t. In 2025, the prize went to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi. They discovered something remarkable: how the immune system stops itself from attacking the body it’s…
