Welcome to our live coverage of the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The prize is among the most prestigious in the scientific world. It will be awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute medical university.

The Nobel Prize in physics is being awarded Tuesday, a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA. Three scientists won last

With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said.