The 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine has been awarded to three scientists to honour their breakthrough discovery of how chromosomes are copied and protected against degradation, the Nobel jury announced on Monday.
Professor David Baltimore speaks about stem-cell research, Barack Obama's policies, and the fight against HIV-AIDS. The interview was organized in partnership with the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The world-famous British physicist Stephen Hawking, author of 'A brief history of time', is undergoing tests in hospital after he suffered chest problems, Cambridge University says.
Opened a year ago, 'The Laboratory' in central Paris has become a place where discussions can be held between artists and scientists. The exhibition 'While I sleep', a mix of design and environment, will be on display until May 4th.
Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien and Japanese citizen Osamu Shimomura on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the discovery of a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish that has become a vital tool in research.
Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States, won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for ground-breaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.
France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (pictured) won the 2008 Nobel prize for their discovery of the HIV virus, sharing it with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has shut down the largest physics project ever for two months due to a test incident. The atom-smasher was constructed to recreate how the Big bang happened.
