A Donegal man has spoken of his delight after picking up his Nobel prize for medicine.

The decision by the electorate to enshrine within our Constitution the right of all citizens, irrespective of sexual orientation, access to the institution of marriage is a victory for equality.

People are changing Earth so much, warming and polluting it, that many scientists are turning to a new way to describe the time we live in.

Three scientists, including a Norwegian married couple, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world.

Preparations for a dramatic follow-up to the discovery of the “God particle” will be taking place at the Large Hadron Collider throughout 2014.

An American who won this year’s Nobel Prize for economics believes sharp rises in equity and property prices could lead to a dangerous financial bubble and may end badly.

Three American scientists won the 2013 economics Nobel prize for research that has improved the forecasting of asset prices in the long-term and helped the emergence of index funds in stock markets.

Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller have won the Nobel prize for economics for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets.

Family and friends of Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney have gathered with his contemporaries and dignitaries to pay last respects to one Ireland’s literary greats.

Robert C Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a Nobel Prize for a key discovery in experimental physics, has died at the age of 75.

A hand-knit woollen sweater made by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has sold at an auction in Burma for almost 50,000 US dollars.

“Not this prize, not this year” is the message from the protesters on the streets of Oslo with their torches, objecting to the EU receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the midst of its greatest crisis since its beginnings in the 1950s.

With world attention focused on CERN and the detection of the Higgs boson, the contribution of Ireland’s Nobel physicist Ernest Walton, who was born in Waterford, should be noted.

In 1996, a journalist met a political prisoner in Rangoon.

Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt must appear in criminal court in a genocide case involving crimes against indigenous Guatemalans during his de-facto government in the 1980s, a government prosecutor said.

JUST a week before the budget, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, Paul Krugman, has again criticised the economic policy of forcing more austerity on the Irish people.

Burma's president has signed a revised law on political parties in an apparent attempt to encourage Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy to accept the political system and reregister as a party.

Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have won the Nobel economics prize “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”.

Three scientists whose research on the immune system opened up new avenues for prevention and treatment of infections, cancer and inflammations have won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

Protesters enraged by Hosni Mubarak’s latest refusal to step down streamed into Cairo’s central square today and took positions outside key symbols of the hated regime, promising to expand their push to drive the Egyptian president out.

Chinese security agents launched a wide-ranging clampdown on dissidents today, hours before the award Nobel Peace Prize award to imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo.

China and 18 other countries will boycott this week's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in protest at the award going to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

THE wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo slammed the government on Wednesday for keeping her under “illegal house arrest” after the US and EU called for her release.

A GUY walks into a bar and shouts: “Drinks all around: my wife’s next in line for the Nobel Peace Prize!”

VARIOUS cancers could be cured within 10 years if red tape and “out of control” ethics committees are removed, one of the world’s leading scientists has claimed.

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NOBEL peace laureate Desmond Tutu is to retire from public life later this year when he turns 79.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has called for Ted Hughes to be honoured in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey.

Four judges have spoken out to defend awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US president Barack Obama.

Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel economics prize today for their work in economic governance.

Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were named as winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine today for research that has implications for cancer and ageing research.

Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were named as winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine today for research that has implications for cancer and ageing research.

A BURMESE court yesterday rejected an appeal by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi against her extended house arrest, just days after the US re-engaged with the country’s ruling junta.

AIDAN O’BRIEN continued his extraordinary record in the Netjets Railway Stakes when Alfred Nobel gave him his 10th success in eleven runnings of the race, storming away with the Group 2 at the Curragh yesterday, writes Pat Keane.

PRO-DEMOCRACY leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial, as hundreds of riot police ringed Burma’s most notorious prison to block protesters from proceedings that could send her to jail for five years.

The Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter has died, his second wife confirmed today.

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.

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney will head up a celebration of Tara at the controversial site of the M3 motorway, organisers said today.

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TRALEE will host a lecture by Nobel laureate Clive Granger, on September 8, 2008.

Protests along the Olympic torch relay route and reports of foiled terrorist plots in China suggest a real possibility for violence during the Beijing games, the head of Interpol said today.

Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai today pulled out of this weekend’s Olympic torch relay in Tanzania in protest over human rights abuses.