The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death. The announcement of the prestigious prizes comes much earlier, however, and this year’s installment ...

One of the great engineers and inventors of his time, it was Sweden's Alfred Nobel who created the first stick of dynamite ...

Nobel prizes for applied research provide recognition for innovations with profound impact, fully in tune with the intentions of Alfred Nobel. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honours discoveries ...

It is a rare event when scientists directly challenge the theory, political power and cultural embeddedness of conventional ...

Africa, colonialism, the United Nations, the 1961 assassination of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba, the first prime ...

While Europe consistently ranks as the most-visited continent in the world, the Baltic states often fall under the radar. However, after a week in Tallinn, the picture-perfect capital of Estonia, I'm ...

As I mentioned earlier, Horseless Age, the first automotive magazine, debuted in November 1895. The following excerpt is ...

By James K. GALBRAITH Google “shamanism” and you will find that it is “a tradition of part-time religious specialists who establish and maintain personalistic relations with specific spirit beings ...

41 years ago today, the lives of two Soviet cosmonauts, Gennady Strekalov and Vladimir Titov, were saved in the only use of an emergency ...