Commentary Suppose your local high school urgently needed a new science teacher. Would a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry or physics be eligible for the position? Not if she had a Ph.D. and 30 years of teaching experience at an elite university but no teaching certificate. That’s because only someone with a teaching certificate can…

It was my brother-in-law’s idea to stay in Gamla Stan for a few days during a family pilgrimage to Sweden. This old-town neighborhood of Stockholm seemed like a good place to dip into Swedish history and get a flavor for the old ways. Narrow cobblestone streets led us to our rented apartment, a 500-year-old residence…

Commentary Our times are stuffed with daily ironies all pointing to the same grim reality: the failure of experts, particularly those in charge of the many systems that manage our lives. And so we wake to another and very important instance of the same. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Nobel…

STOCKHOLM—Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that offer insight into cell biology. The field of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry has been harnessed to improve the targeting of cancer pharmaceuticals now…

IRVINE, Calif.—The 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner and University of California–Irvine alumnus David MacMillan has a lot to say about what it was like to win. His story—coupled with his massively successful research—made for an evening of riveting recollections laced with laughter and happy tears as he took the stage May 24 at UC Irvine’s…

When the phone rang around 2 a.m. telling David Card that he won the Nobel Prize for Economics, the Canadian-born economist thought it was a stunt. But when he saw the phone showing a Swedish number he thought maybe it wasn’t a joke after all. “I have an old friend I met in ninth-grade English…

A mounting energy crisis — Oil prices hitting record levels, coal and gas prices rising too. How are producers adapting? Three economists based in America get the Nobel Prize in Economics. What have they done for the field and what are critics saying? And Southwest Airlines says services will be back to normal this week, after…

The 2021 Nobel Prize in economic sciences was awarded on Monday to three economists who managed to pioneer research that brought new insights into the labor market. Joshua Angrist, an American economist who works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Guido Imbens, a Dutch-born economist who works at Stanford University, jointly received half of the…

Two California scientists jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 4. Ardem Patapoutian, a researcher from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, San Diego, and David Julius, a researcher from the University of California–San Francisco, were both recognized with the prestigious prize for their scientific discoveries. The Lebanese-born American Nobel laureate…

The 2021 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine has been awarded to two U.S.-based scientists for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch, the award-giving body announced on Monday. The findings of California-based scientists, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, focused on the field of somatosensation, more commonly known as tactile sense, or the body’s ability to…