Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government,” Stiglitz told Fortune.

Nobel laureate and economics and history Prof. Joel Mokyr answered students’ queries about topics including technology, economic growth and human progress in a Q&A session Tuesday evening. “This is ...

A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

In some of the driest regions on Earth, a new technology is proving that drinking water can be drawn directly from the sky, even when the ground is parched. Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the ...

Large-scale units, about the size of a 20ft shipping container, to harvest water from the air in arid regions are in development. They can generate up to 1000 litres of water a day.

STOCKHOLM — Nobel week was underway in Stockholm and Oslo with laureates holding news conferences and lectures before they will be awarded the prestigious prizes. Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, who ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements began on Oct. 7, recognizing groundbreaking contributions to humanity. The first prize, in ...

Early unpublished works by a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature have come to light. Two pieces written by the late Oe Kenzaburo in the 1950s are believed to be the cornerstones of his ...

Imprisoned Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi was subjected to beatings and “life-threatening mistreatment” by Iranian authorities during her arrest and detention, the Norwegian Nobel Committee ...