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A group of French intellectuals including Nobel literature prize winner Annie Ernaux on Sunday urged people to join protests planned by the left for next week, accusing President Emmanuel Macron of not doing enough to help the poor cope with high prices while some companies make windfall profits.

How will the three laureates’ groundbreaking experiments using entangled photons clear the way for new technology based on quantum information? What are the applications in the world of computers, crypted communication and secure networks?

In what way are 2022’s Nobel laureates for Chemistry changing the agricultural, pharmaceutical and biomedical fields?

This year’s winner shows the merit of the memoir form and marks a turning point for the literature prize

A day after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize with fellow human rights campaigners from Belarus and Russia, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties praised the work of her fellow laureates but cautioned against lumping the three together in a Cold War-like narrative

Oleksandra Matviychuk says the prize will give them ‘more strength’ in their efforts to fight for human rights.

Here are this week’s latest findings and updates in the world of science.

British-based Nobel prize winner says hopes for securing an alliance with the crucial Horizon Europe collaboration are fading fast

An archeologist explains how advancements in studying ancient genomes impact our personal identity

We can’t know what was said in those secret deliberations, but the Nobel Committee must have thought about giving Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Peace prize. That would have been a popular choice — he easily topped the 2022 Time magazine reader poll for the most influential person of the year.

It may have been one of the highest accolades that the international community can bestow, but to the human rights defenders of Russia's Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize was above all a reminder of continued struggle and sacrifice.