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‘Taboo’ against the use of nuclear weapons has come ‘under pressure’ in ongoing warfare once again
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Rise of metascience: Turning science on itself
Focus on the ‘science of science’ is ensuring better research outcomes
Nobel Peace Prize: Nihon Hidankyo group is the moral heart of the world anti-nuclear movement
Japan’s official position, sheltering under the US nuclear umbrella while paying lip service to survivors, is often uncomfortable
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese campaigners against nuclear weapons
Nihon Hidankyo movement made up of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs in 1945
Nobel Prize in Literature winner Han Kang is a courageous, gifted, global writer
Rónán Hession: The Vegetarian is highly original, a good place to start for anyone new to her writing
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: South Korean author Han Kang wins
Writer won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian
London play paused after theatregoers feel faint during abortion scene
The Years is based on the autobiography by French Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux
Shooting the breeze with trailblazer chemists
The merits of having the right mindset to seed big discoveries, which in the case of David MacMillan and Frances Arnold led to a Nobel prize
Advantages - and dangers - of new gene-editing technology CRISPR
CRISPR should be used to pioneer cures for diseases while upholding human dignity, but we must be extremely cautious about using it to manipulate the genetic make-up of future generations
Advances in MRI may open window for treating neurodegenerative diseases
Technology behind MRI machines, among the most complex devices in modern medicine, is still developing after 70 years
A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux: Writing her mother
French author explores an intimate, complex relationship with hyper-personal objectivity
Sellafield is a hub of British innovation - and a symbol of technology’s impact on the planet
The UK nuclear site, situated close to Ireland, has been key to British defence and energy security concerns for decades, but its legacy is a toxic bestowal for generations to come
In the late 1980s my pregnant, underpaid mother had what was then called a ‘nervous breakdown’
Women don’t have ‘nervous breakdowns’ now, but we do get ‘burnt out’ in astonishing numbers
Gerald Murnane: ‘I could be killed by my own writing’
The Australian author, a regular Nobel favourite, is an inveterate archiver of his life and work. His writing is similarly deliberate, if hard to describe
Bronze bust of David Trimble unveiled at Leinster House
Former UUP leader jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize with SDLP’s John Hume in 1998
WB Yeats’s Nobel banquet: The food they ate, the wine they drank, and what it said about Ireland
The Stephen’s Green Club, in Dublin, honoured the poet with a celebratory dinner. The programme is a portal to a transformative period of Irish history
Ireland saw ‘bad books’ and ‘immodest fashion’ everywhere, but was blind to homegrown hells
One of the great ironies of the censorship crusade was that so much “evil” under Irish noses was ignored
Nobel prize-winning author Jon Fosse on giving up alcohol and converting to Catholicism
The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece
Bust of late UUP leader David Trimble to be unveiled in Leinster House in December
Bust to be placed beside one of late John Hume and will be unveiled to coincide with 25th anniversary of awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to both men
WB Yeats’s Nobel Prize: 100 years on, who is to take charge of our national literature?
The creation of an ambitious Irish national literature for the future poses pressing questions on many fronts
‘It would appear now that some people do appreciate my work’: What WB Yeats told The Irish Times in 1923 about his Nobel win
One hundred years ago this week, The Irish Times was first to tell the poet he was set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We then published this series of articles
‘Europe’s welcome to the Free State’: The story of WB Yeats’s Nobel victory
Yeats did not know that 1923, the year of his Nobel prize, did not mark his first nomination but his seventh
Louise Glück obituary: Poems full of dark observations about love, loss and betrayal
She won the 2020 Nobel prize for literature, the first American to do since TS Eliot
Martti Ahtisaari obituary: Former Finnish president who played a crucial role in peace process
“Martti was always a voice of hope, one that proved that war is not the solution to conflicts,” said President Michael D Higgins
Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish president and key figure in Northern Ireland peace process, dies aged 86
Mr Ahtisaari won a Noble Peace Prize in 2008 for his role in resolving international conflicts
Nobel-winning poet Louise Glück, hailed as an ‘unmistakable voice’, dies aged 80
Gluck, inspired by Shakespeare and Greek mythology, was the first American poet to win Nobel prize for literature since TS Eliot in 1948
Gender gap economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel prize
More than 30 years after her groundbreaking book on the subject, women still face significant shortfalls in pay compared to men
Tim Harford: The high price of our increasingly subscription-based lifestyle
Businesses have learned there is good money to be made by cashing in on our carelessness
Jailed Iranian women’s activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize
Narges Mohammadi, who remains in prison, has been arrested 13 times by the Iranian regime, convicted five times, and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.
Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse’s works ‘give voice to the unsayable’
Norwegian playwright and novelist had regularly been tipped for the prize
Nobel Prize in Literature 2023: Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins
The author wins greatest prize in world literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable’
Three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on quantum dots
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov’s work with particles used in LED displays
Nobel Peace Prize winner to run in DRC presidential election
Denis Mukwege looks to political role in conflict-torn and exploited Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for their work on electrons
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier will share €950,000 prize for their work on producing pulses of light on the attosecond timescale
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