Nobel nitwit Obama stokes Syrian war

MUMBAI: This is with reference to Aakar Patel's article Edhi, Gandhi and the Nobel Committee (May 26). I think Mahatma Gandhi not being awarded the Nobel peace prize does not bring down the great man's status. It is more an issue of credibility of ...

Geneva - Francois Englert, the Belgian physicist widely tipped to share a Nobel prize this year with Britain's Peter Higgs, said on Tuesday many cosmic mysteries remain despite the discovery of the boson that gave shape to the universe. And he ...

(CNN) -- Neuroscientists love Aplysia. They are a type of sea slug that grows to be about a foot long. With only 20,000 nerve cells -- compared with about 100 billion found in the human brain -- Aplysia are the perfect lab animals for brain ...

Heinrich Rohrer, who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a microscope that made it possible to see individual atoms and move them around, an achievement that led to vastly faster computing and greatly advanced molecular biology, ...

AFPPARIS -- The discovery of the DNA double helix 60 years ago proved to be a headache for the Nobel organization as the feat became nominated for prizes in different categories at the same time, Nature reported on Wednesday. Francis Crick and ...

As pressures mount in Washington for a more aggressive American involvement on behalf of at least some rebel groups in Syria, President Obama has seemed intent on proving the Nobel committee was farsighted in awarding him its peace prize four years ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is calling on the UK to help rebuild Burma's universities, which she says were "destroyed' by military rule. The Burmese opposition leader is using a video message to address a gathering of university ...

BEIJING — A Chinese court on Sunday sentenced a brother-in-law of a persecuted Nobel Peace Prize laureate to 11 years in prison on charges of financial fraud, according to friends of the man awarded the prize, Liu Xiaobo. The sentence ...

Along with the usual pomp and circumstance, this month's college commencement season features a Nobel Prize winner, a U.S. senator, a pair of TV news anchors, various captains of industry and one of the guys who brought Chunky Monkey to the world.