Whether via her fill-in-the-blank translations or guest appearances on indie rock albums, Anne Carson has infused antiquity with a contemporary tongue
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New Nobel winner Anne Carson’s playful, deeply intelligent work riffs off and reinvents ancient classics – and often lands with breathtaking emotional force.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry gave a hand to handed molecules – and the processes chemists use to create them.
From algae to a Nobel prize: listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast to hear Karl Deisseroth explain his brain science breakthrough.
At a time when scholarship and creative writing are often treated as separate pursuits, Carson has shown how deeply they belong together.
IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.
The prize was awarded for work that produces one version of a mirror image molecule.
Belgium-born Francis Halzen has won for the detection of high energy neutrino particle from space.
Neuroscientific advances follow a pattern of visualizing the brain, measuring its function and then controlling it. Optogenetics may lead to a new era of medical treatment.
Particle accelerators aren’t just for testing the Standard Model. They’re also used to diagnose and treat disease and study world history.
When a chemist wrote a book about vitamin C curing the common cold, the world took note. How wrong we all were.
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
At the same time Australia has inked a deal with the US on critical minerals, it’s proposing cuts to facilities that underpin its clean energy ambitions.
A better understanding of growth could help to improve living standards in the world’s poorest countries.
Collectively, the trio’s work has examined what drives sustainable economic growth over time, including scientific innovation and the birth and death of firms.
With the world’s traditional champion of democratic governance in retrenchment, other pro-democracy forces are stepping into the breach — including the Nobel Committee.
2025’s Nobel Prize in Physics is a tribute to the scientists who first discovered quantum behaviors in a macroscopic electrical circuit.
It took over a decade for the Hungarian novelist to be recognised in English-speaking countries.
By trapping different molecules, metal-organic frameworks could make for efficient breath sensors that predict lung disease, cancer or diabetes.
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