This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Mykola Kuleba and Save the Children would highlight both the devastating impact of war on children, and children’s agency in these settings. Such an award would ...

Every generation chooses its heroes carefully. Sometimes those heroes emerge from struggle, sacrifice, and long movements for justice. That is how the ...

Maryam Mirzakhani, a mathematics prodigy from Tehran became the first woman in history to win the Fields Medal in 2014.

Growing up in Tehran, Maryam Mirzakhani once dreamed of becoming a writer. But in 2014, she made history by winning the ...

The Pritzker Prize was awarded Thursday. "In every work, he is able to answer with radical originality, making the unobvious ...

The architect, whose experimental designs include a doughnut-shaped pavilion and a restaurant held up by boulders, was praised for his “radical originality.” ...

With his Original Song Oscar win for “Things Have Changed," Bob Dylan is one of only two people to have an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize.

Born in Prague and deceased in Vienna, the wars of the second half of the 19th century in Europe marked her literary work and made her an icon of the peace movement. Around International Women’s Day, ...

Explore the impact of patriarchy and the Matilda effect on women's contributions to STEM, highlighting Rosalind Franklin's ...

Iranians may remember Trump as the president who took on some of history’s most brutal dictators and gave their countries a ...