This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice with her groundbreaking research on radioactivity. Learn about her achievements, family ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

The Turing Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computer science, was awarded to quantum science researchers for the first time this year. There are evaluations that quantum information ...

Bonn-based mathematician Gerd Faltings is to be awarded the Abel Prize, often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics, marking ...

For the first time ever, the Abel Prize has gone to a German—and this one is based at the University of Bonn! Mathematician ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets ...

Cryptography pioneers Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard introduced the BB84 protocol the uses the principles of ...

At the time, their technique was a fascinating but impractical creation. Forty years later, it is poised to become an ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize in Computing," carries a $1 million prize with financial ...

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out ...