NOBEL PRIZE

The author of 30 books, mainly novels, was named as the 2014 award winner by the Swedish Academy on Thursday.

Winners in the other categories of the Nobel Prize, including, physics, chemistry, literature and peace, will be announced later in the week.

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize may come down to Pope Francis, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden or Malala Yousufzai.

Randy Schekman, James Rothman and Thomas Sudhof shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, announced Monday.

The 2013 Nobel Prize announcement schedule has been announced, and there are front-runners for the Physics, Peace and Literature prizes.

Taiwan’s billionaire business mogul Samuel Lin has put up over $100 million of his personal fortune to establish a grant foundation that will award what are being referred to as the “Asian Nobel prizes.”

A "silly" study finds a connection between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prize winners.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 was awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, who in his dozens of stories and novels uses magic realism to merge folk tales, China’s history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 was awarded jointly to American scientists Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka for "for studies of G-protein–coupled receptors" that shed light on how billions of cells in our body interact with their environment, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday.

Two researchers shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work, which proved that mature cells can be reprogrammed into a stem cell-like state.

Two non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have broken a long-standing taboo against wading into politics by publicly talking about how election-year considerations affect the decisions of U.S. central bankers.

John Steinbeck gave the literary world a lovable simpleton in Lennie Small, the fulcrum of the Nobel Prize winner’s classic 1937 novella “Of Mice and Men.” The character has been brought to the fore again, providing the baseline comparison that may send a mentally retarded convict named Marvin Wilson to his death Tuesday night.

If Milton Friedman were alive today, he would be 100 years old. The Nobel-prize winning economist has transformed the way many people think about the government and economic policy.

A roadside electronic billboard in Idaho has shocked the conservative state by comparing President Barack Obama to accused Colorado mass killer James Holmes.

In the past few decades, scientific breakthroughs are increasingly coming from older scientists. But young people still make astounding discoveries, and some institutions, including science fairs and the U.S. government, aim to encourage budding researchers to keep at it.

As President Barack Obama pivots to make income inequality a focus of his campaign, income and wealth disparities are widening to alarming proportions.

Cutting federal spending in 2012 could tip the U.S. economy back into a recession, just as it almost did in 1937. On the contrary, if the federal government spent more on infrastructure and public works projects now and in the immediate quarters ahead, it would create millions of jobs.

Even before the excitement over the discovery of the Boson-like particle could die down, scientists seem to be clamoring for their pound of flesh in staking their claim for the particle discovery, and thereby the Nobel Prize.

Thousands of miles away, a cadre of international Nobel laureates assembled to discuss global warming were having a, er, heated debate, arguing over data that the vast majority of scientists the world over say shows clear evidence of manmade climate change. But in the steaming streets of Brooklyn, the crowded public pools of Atlanta and the power outage-hit suburbs of Washington, D.C., the discussion was unanimous: It was hot.

Shera Bechard, the Canadian model former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and creator of Frisky Friday, was granted a special visa the U.S. government gives to individuals with extraordinary ability. Do you think Shera Bechard deserved a U.S. visa? View the slideshow to see photos of the Playboy Playmate.

Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which she was awarded over 20 years ago.