The Nobel Literature Prize went Thursday to American poet Louise Gluck, the jury at the Swedish Academy said, honouring a writer known for themes of childhood and family life. Gluck, 77, was honoured "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence...

Two scientists are sharing the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the tools to edit DNA, the molecular basis of all life on Earth, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. Emmanuelle Charpentier, professor at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in...

“Najeeb Al-Rayyes: A Journey in a Hard Time” is a documentary film by the Syrian director, Alfouz Tanjour, that tells the history of Syria after independence and before Hafez al-Assad’s reign through the story of a rebel and a patriot journalist and in a way that highlights the heavy...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. Britain’s Roger Penrose, professor at the University of Oxford, won half the prize of 10...