Much like fairy tales, magical realism novels blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Read an excerpt from Voices of Chernobyl.
Svetlana Alexievich.
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Enjoy poetry from the 1996 literature laureate.
Wisława Szymborska, 1996.
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Read an excerpt from Sula.
Toni Morrison.
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Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) on the role of literature in the modern world.
Annie Ernaux on the role of memory in her writing.
Listen to Olga Tokarczuk’s advice for aspiring writers.
This year marks 80 years since Chilean Gabriela Mistral became the first South American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Working as a teacher from an early age, Mistral started writing poetry after a stormy relationship. She came to play an important role in the educational system in Chile and Mexico.
Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.
Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.
“As a scientist, make sure students become critical thinkers”
2020 physics laureate Andrea Ghez was joined by students from all over the world for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Ghez gave her best advice for maintaining a good work-life balance and spoke about AI in physics.
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin showed how the virus does its job, the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
Over the years, Nobel Prize-awarded advances in medicine show that remarkable progress is possible.
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Read about how scientists found ways to use the immune system to treat cancer.
Nobel Prize laureate Tasuku Honjo, surrounded by his team at Kyoto University, immediately after hearing the news that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The story behind insulin, that helps some of the over 400 million people around the world with diabetes.
Preparing syringe for insulin shot.
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From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
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A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
