Fred Ramsdell was hiking across the Rocky Mountains, with no phone coverage, when prize was announced

John Clarke, a British physicist based in University of California, learned of award through a phone call

Fred Ramsdell, honoured for groundbreaking immune system research, is yet to learn of his win after heading into the Idaho wilderness

US president’s lobbying is likely to be counterproductive for an award-giving committee that values its independence

Book review: From the Polish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, newly translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

US president’s push for an agreement without a ceasefire threatens to place Ukraine in a double bind that could be crushing

After the No Kings protests, Trump complained that, unlike a king, he had to ‘go through hell’ to get things approved. ‘No, we’re not a king,’ he said. Note the royal we

US president has said many times that he deserves the award

Ireland has the opportunity to lead a new generation of European research by acting quickly to increase funding and supports

Delegation of women hears of ‘system of violence and impunity’ on visit to territory occupied by Israel

Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Prize winner, charted his own path as a novelist and conservative, often divisive political thinker

Rite & Reason: Why are birth rates in freefall? Many factors, some economic, others religious, some social and personal, play a part

Nobel prize-winning author’s latest novel is about three friends growing up in Zanzibar

Nobel prize-winning economist says defence spending move by EU is sound economic policy

Novelist’s work is packed with references to medicine, sickness and health

Everything written about Alice Munroe after revelations about her daughter’s sexual abuse will record the Nobel Prize-winning author’s failure as a parent and human being

Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science degrees

Prague-born couple Carl and Gerty advanced knowledge of how the body produces and stores energy. They shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this work.

‘Taboo’ against the use of nuclear weapons has come ‘under pressure’ in ongoing warfare once again

Focus on the ‘science of science’ is ensuring better research outcomes