Anyone alive and active in organizations or institutions is eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Foundation's ...

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A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, ...

Pico Iyer, right, grabs a photo with Roman Baratiak. Iyer said he learned ‘more from Bariatak 'than from any professor I’ve ...

For a century and a quarter, the Nobel Foundation has awarded annual prizes “for the greatest benefit to humankind.” Sometimes they have seemed obvious and worthy, other times not so much. There was ...

For a long time, universities worked off a simple idea: knowledge was scarce. You paid for tuition, showed up to lectures, ...

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Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicists Ferenc Krausz (2023) and Serge Haroche (2012) returned from an emotional and impactful visit to ...

Imagine living in a world where Benjamin Netanyahu — the same man who’s turned Gaza into a graveyard of children, journalists ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the ...