Alok Shukla wins Goldman Prize or ‘Green Nobel’ for Hasdeo Aranya campaign

Hasdeo movement, spearheaded by Shukla, a model for environmental justice in India, says Goldman Foundation  

Simply Put: The elephant in the room

US-based economists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking work with ‘natural experiments’

Their approach has revolutionised empirical research, says Nobel committee

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Three awarded for work on extremely short light pulses to better study electrons

The research can have applications in the field of medicine, semiconductor technology 

Simply Put: No-Bail Laureate

Simply put: Tax cuts and more tax cuts

Simply Put: Hepatitis C virus

Simply put: The missed Nobels

Simply Put: Extinction, not evolution

“Rich countries need to consume and produce less animal-source foods”

World Food Prize winner Lawrence Haddad on the impact of climate change on food systems

2022 too short, too far: How did the economy fare last year

Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022

Finding meaning in a career in science: Experts share their stories

Without this 360-degree view of climate science, we are likely to keep breeding narrow-minded climate communicators 

Planetary Boundary pioneer Johan Rockstrom wins 2024 Tyler Prize for environmental achievement

Planetary Boundary framework determines limits within which humanity can safely operate within natural world

2020 Nobel Prize in physics for work on black holes: An astrophysicist explains trailblazing discoveries

At the singularity, our conceptions of space, time and matter fall apart; resolving this issue is perhaps the biggest open problem in theoretical …

A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C — and a path forward

The development of treatments over the past 30 years reflects the amazing progress the field has made in tackling hepatitis C in a relatively …

Chemistry Nobel 2021 goes to 2 scientists for environmentally friendly molecule building tool

Their creation paved the way for a completely new avenue to put together molecules, according to the Nobel committee

Physics Nobel 2021 to 3 for predicting climate change, building physical models for complex systems

Manabe and Hasselmann awarded for work in physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

Chemistry Nobel 2023 goes to 3 scientists for discovery of quantum dots used in LED lamps, surgery

Quantum dots are nanoparticles of different colours depending on their size, primarily used to create coloured light  

Nobel Prize 2023: Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman awarded for work that led to effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

Kariko and Weissman eliminated critical obstacles on the way to clinical applications of mRNA, paving the way for speedy development of mRNA …

Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov had used fact-based journalism to speak truth to power in the Philippines and Russia and had done so at a …

Medicine Nobel 2021 to Julius and Patapoutian for work on stimuli and nerve impulses

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian discover heat receptors and ion channels that further our understanding on pain

Making auctions work: The winning ideas behind this year’s Nobel Prize in economics

The 2020 Nobel Prize in economics has been awarded to two Americans, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, for their work in analysing auctions and how …

Nobel Peace Prize spotlights the links between hunger and conflict

About 1 in 9 persons worldwide don’t get to eat enough, suffering food insecurity, or not having consistent access to the right foods to …

2020 Physics Nobel to trio for work on black holes

Roger Penrose showed black holes to be a direct consequence of Theory of Relativity; Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered a massive black …

Nobel Prize for chemistry for gene-editing: A gene engineer explains how it works

CRISPR has huge potential to transform how scientists can detect, treat and even eradicate diseases as well as improve agricultural products