Nobel Prize

Nomination letters for Wilkins, Watson and Crick prize are unsealed.

Yamanaka, Gurdon share prize for adult stem cell research.

The duo found what scientists thought was impossible - that specialized cells could go back in time to become immature cells.

Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman caught the attention of the FBI during the early Cold War.

A 9-billion-year--year-old star explosion may yield clues about the expansion of the universe.

Three astrophysicists hope that breakthroughs in dark energy studies will come within the next decade.

The inventions and discoveries of Nobel Prize winners often make huge contributions to society, but many of the laureates don't actually financially benefit from their discoveries.

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov split the Nobel in Physics for their work on a carbon compound called graphene.

Before he won in 2003, Dutch biologist Kees Moeliker had never heard of the Ig Nobel prizes.