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‘I still want to verify this’: Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay’s first reaction
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, said she initially thought the news was a joke when she learned she had won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The former judge said she wanted to verify the announcement before believing it.
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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Anne Carson was among the bookies' favourites to win this year, as her body of work eschews easy categorisation.The Nobel Prize committee singled out her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
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Moment US scientist tells his children he won the Nobel Prize
US scientist Karl Deisseroth had a memorable way of sharing the news that he had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
In images released by Stanford University, Deisseroth can be seen telling his two daughters and his son about the award.
Health news
German and US scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics — a method that "provides opportunities for mapping the brain in a way that we could once only dream of."
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Fake Nobel Prize, real exclusion at the University of Besançon
A teacher-researcher from Besançon is at the heart of a case that is shaking up the academic world: he is suspected of having created an international distinction in philology out of thin air and then awarded it to himself. This staged event has led to him being expelled from his university.
