Literature laureates including Bob Dylan have penned powerful poems that distil important issues, such as women’s rights and colonialism, into visionary verse, as well as using rousing rhymes in lyrics to promote equality and peace.
Magical realism
Much like fairy tales, magical realism novels blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) on the role of literature in the modern world.
Han Kang always turned to her books “for protection.”
Annie Ernaux on the role of memory in her writing.
Listen to Olga Tokarczuk’s advice for aspiring writers.
Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.
Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.
“As a scientist, make sure students become critical thinkers”
2020 physics laureate Andrea Ghez was joined by students from all over the world for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Ghez gave her best advice for maintaining a good work-life balance and spoke about AI in physics.
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin showed how the virus does its job, the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
Over the years, Nobel Prize-awarded advances in medicine show that remarkable progress is possible.
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Read about how scientists found ways to use the immune system to treat cancer.
Nobel Prize laureate Tasuku Honjo, surrounded by his team at Kyoto University, immediately after hearing the news that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The story behind insulin, that helps some of the over 400 million people around the world with diabetes.
Preparing syringe for insulin shot.
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From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
Follow Hana Khider and her all-female team of Yazidi deminers attempting to clear their land of mines. Their job involves painstakingly searching for booby traps in bombed out buildings and fields, where one wrong move means certain death.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
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