Germany’s Harald zur Hausen and French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine today for discovering the Aids virus and the role of viruses in cervical cancer.

Discoveries of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, efforts to better understand the weather and work on carbon tubes are among the discoveries that could win the Nobel Prize in physics today.

Scientists who researched so-called “knockout mice”, DNA fingerprinting or stem cells are among the possible candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine to be announced today in the Swedish capital.

Scientists who researched so-called “knockout mice,” DNA fingerprinting or stem cells are among the possible candidates for the Nobel Prize in medicine to be announced today in the Swedish capital.