The Latest Breaking News on Prizes

The 36th annual ceremony, typically held in the US a few weeks before the actual Nobel Prizes, will now take place in Zurich

Amid a wave of resignations and institutional fallout across the corporate, political and academic world over newly released Jeffrey Epstein files, Harvard University has placed a senior mathematics professor, once described as Epstein’s “inside man” at the elite institution, on paid administrative leave.

Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin has accused former interim government chief Muhammad Yunus of plotting to overthrow him and destabilize the country. Shahabuddin alleged a secretive Bangladesh-US trade agreement and credited the military and BNP leadership for his presidency during Yunus's tenure. Separately, a Yunus-appointed prosecutor was replaced amid ongoing legal…

In a video released on February 17, 2026, Prince William revealed the next host of his famous Earthshot Prize. He announced the global environmental awards will be taking place in Mumbai in November, taking the event to India for the first time.

Annual prize awards £1m each to five winners for designing solutions aimed at tackling climate and nature crisis

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a mathematician and logician, with work that moved between theory and machinery. When…

The ex-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize committee appears hundreds of times in the files

A new trove of documents released by the Justice Department reveals that Epstein’s reach into academia was wider than previously known

Letters: Physics research drives technological innovation, from medical imaging to data processing, write Dr Phil Bull and Prof Chris Clarkson; plus letters from Tim Gershon and Vincenzo Vagnoni, and Prof Paul Howarth