Hall and Woodford Win the 2026 Nobel Economics Prize for Taming Economic Shocks
Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the theory behind how central banks fight recessions and inflation.
Nobel Prize
Navi Pillay Wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for Defending International Justice
South African jurist Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work to ensure genocide and war crimes are prosecuted. Her career and the reaction.
Canadian Poet Anne Carson Wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Who she is, why she won and where to start reading.
Nobel Prizes 2026: IceCube’s Neutrino Hunter and the Chemists of Mirror-Image Molecules
Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube’s cosmic neutrinos; Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won chemistry for non-linear effects and autocatalysis.
Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Pioneers of Optogenetics, Which Controls Brain Cells With Light
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.