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11/08/2026

What characterises a great leader?

Medicine laureate Bruce Beutler shares some words of wisdom on how to become a better leader and the book he recommends we all read.

What characteristics do you need to become a successful researcher? Economic sciences laureate Peter Howitt shared his t...
11/08/2026

What characteristics do you need to become a successful researcher? Economic sciences laureate Peter Howitt shared his thoughts:

"Curiosity is number one. And the ability to pursue through failure, because most of what I ever tried didn’t work out. So you just have to keep trying. There’s an old saying that if at first you don’t succeed you should redefine the question. Start looking somewhere else. Keep on searching around until you find something that really works. Persistence is important."

Hear more in our interview with Howitt: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2025/howitt/interview/

Chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino: then and now.Yoshino's interest in chemistry was sparked when he received a copy of Mi...
11/08/2026

Chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino: then and now.

Yoshino's interest in chemistry was sparked when he received a copy of Michael Faraday's book 'The Chemical History of a Candle'. After studying technology at Kyoto University, he ultimately ended up developing the first commercially viable lithium-ion battery in 1985. These types of batteries are now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. Lightweight and rechargeable, they can also store significant amounts of energy from solar and wind power, making possible a fossil fuel-free society.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 alongside John Goodenough and Stanley Whittingham "for the development of lithium-ion batteries."

Photos: Akira Yoshino aged 5; Akira Yoshino at the Nobel Prize Museum in 2019

In 1976, three children were killed in a shooting incident in Belfast. Betty Williams (left) and Mairead Corrigan (right...
10/08/2026

In 1976, three children were killed in a shooting incident in Belfast. Betty Williams (left) and Mairead Corrigan (right) – two ordinary women who were touched by the tragedy – launched an appeal against the use of violence in Northern Ireland by founding the Community of Peace People.

Corrigan lost her nieces and nephew that day, an event witnessed by Williams who rushed to help and was spurred into action. Together the two, with journalist Ciaran McKeown, began to hold huge rallies throughout Northern Ireland to say no to violence and yes to dialogue and peace-making.

They marched through streets that were previously no-go areas, facing death threats and danger. However they persisted, marching every Saturday from August 1976 to December 1976. In doing so they took the first courageous step along the road to peace.

Williams and Corrigan showed us what ordinary people can do to promote the cause of peace. They were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their work.

Learn more: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1976/summary/

How much will artificial intelligence transform the future of science? Nobel Prize laureate Craig Mello is joining us fo...
10/08/2026

How much will artificial intelligence transform the future of science?

Nobel Prize laureate Craig Mello is joining us for a discussion in Seoul, South Korea about AI's future role in science. Together with other laureates and leading experts, they will explore what these changes mean for our ability to develop scientific solutions to the urgent challenges we face.

Craig Mello received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006 for his work related to the discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.

Discover more about the 2026 Nobel Prize Dialogue in Seoul: https://www.nobelprize.org/events/nobel-prize-dialogue/seoul-2026

During the 1930s, biochemist Arne Tiselius developed a method called electrophoresis, to separate different substances f...
10/08/2026

During the 1930s, biochemist Arne Tiselius developed a method called electrophoresis, to separate different substances from one another. In his 1948 Nobel Prize lecture, he said it was too early to predict what the method would be used for. Today, the method is used for separating DNA, RNA fragments and molecules.

This drawing was used in Tiselius' Nobel Prize lecture, which you can read here: https://bit.ly/3qaV8OA

"The Earth is the root and the source of our culture. She keeps our memories, she receives our ancestors and she, theref...
09/08/2026

"The Earth is the root and the source of our culture. She keeps our memories, she receives our ancestors and she, therefore, demands that we honour her and return to her, with tenderness and respect, those goods that she gives us.

We have to take care of her so that our children and grandchildren may continue to benefit from her. If the world does not learn now to show respect to nature, what kind of future will the new generations have?"

1992 peace laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum describes the relationship her people have with the Earth in her Nobel Prize lecture.

Read her full lecture: https://bit.ly/2SfRv3m

"At the moment I sat down on my work stool, a powerful flash of light came through the small windows. We were blinded fo...
09/08/2026

"At the moment I sat down on my work stool, a powerful flash of light came through the small windows. We were blinded for about 30 seconds. Then, about 40 seconds after the flash, a loud sound and sudden change of air pressure followed. We were sure there was a huge explosion somewhere, but we didn’t know where. The sky was rapidly filling with dark clouds, and when I left the factory to walk home, about three miles away, a drizzling rain started. It was black rain. By the time I arrived home, my white shirt had turned gray. My grandmother quickly readied a bath for me. That bath might have saved me from the ill effects of the strong radiation that presumably existed in the black rain."

In his Nobel Prize biography, chemistry laureate Osamu Shimomura recalls his own childhood experiences from August 1945 when the city of Nagasaki was destroyed by a new type of bomb. Shimomura would grow up to study the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and conduct research on the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

Read his life story here: https://bit.ly/2DOtvAf

"I am one of the survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. At the time, I was 13 years old, at home, around 3 kilomet...
09/08/2026

"I am one of the survivors of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. At the time, I was 13 years old, at home, around 3 kilometers east of ground zero.

It was August 9, 1945. I suddenly heard the buzzing sound of a bomber jet, and was soon after engulfed in a bright, white light. Surprised, I ran downstairs and got down on the floor, covering my eyes and ears with my hands. The next moment, an intense shock wave passed through our entire house. I have no memory of that moment, but when I came to my senses, I found myself under a large, glass sliding door. It was a miracle that none of the glass was broken, and I was somehow spared injuries.

Three days later, I sought out the families of my two aunts who lived in the area near the hypocenter. It was then that I saw the full devastation of the bombing of Nagasaki. Walking with my mother, we went around a small mountain. Reaching a pass, we looked down in horror. Blackened ruins spread out as far as the port of Nagasaki, some three kilometers away. Urakami Cathedral, the largest brick church in the East, had collapsed to the ground, leaving no trace.

All the houses along the path, down to the foot of the mountain, were burnt to the ground and corpses lay scattered around them. Many people who were badly injured or burned, but still alive, were left unattended, with no help whatsoever. I became almost devoid of emotion, somehow closing off my sense of humanity, and simply headed intently for my destination.

I found the charred body of one aunt at the remains of her house, 400 meters from the hypocenter, along with the body of her grandson, a university student.

The other aunt’s house had collapsed and become a pile of wood. My grandfather was crouched down, on the brink of death, with severe burns all over his body. My aunt had been severely burned, and died just before we arrived. We then cremated her remains with our own hands. My uncle, who was initially mostly unharmed, had left the area to seek help. Yet we later learned that he had collapsed at a rescue station, and died after suffering from a high fever for a week. Thus, one single atomic bomb transformed five of my relatives, so mercilessly, taking all of their lives in one fell swoop.

The deaths I witnessed at that time could hardly be described as human deaths. There were hundreds of people suffering in agony, unable to receive any kind of medical attention. I strongly felt that even in war, such killing and maiming must never be allowed to happen."

81 years ago a nuclear bomb was dropped on Terumi Tanaka's city of Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 70,000 people. Today Terumi is 94 years old but nuclear weapons still threaten our world. Terumi tells his story to remind us of the inhumane suffering survivors were forced to endure and to secure the abolition of nuclear weapons, which must not be allowed to coexist with humanity.

Watch Terumi Tanaka's full testimony at https://bit.ly/49vUzRO

Not even Albert Einstein, the father of general relativity, thought that black holes could actually exist. However, ten ...
08/08/2026

Not even Albert Einstein, the father of general relativity, thought that black holes could actually exist. However, ten years after Einstein’s death, the British theorist Roger Penrose demonstrated that black holes can form and described their properties. At their heart, black holes hide a singularity, a boundary at which all the known laws of nature break down.

To prove that black hole formation is a stable process, Penrose needed to expand the methods used to study the theory of relativity – tackling the theory’s problems with new mathematical concepts. Penrose’s ground-breaking article was published in January 1965 and is still regarded as the most important contribution to the general theory of relativity since Einstein.

Discover more about the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics: https://bit.ly/2H0P30K

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