
DNA discoverer's letter sells for $5.3M, a record
A letter that scientist Francis Crick wrote to his son about his Nobel Prize-winning DNA discovery was sold to anonymous buyer at a New York City ...

Belgian wins Norway's $1 million Abel math prize
Belgian-born Pierre Deligne has won this year's $1-million Abel Prize in mathematics for his contributions to algebraic geometry and their ...

Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. In what ...
Historians, scientists, artist win Israeli prize
American intellectual Leon Wieseltier, French philosopher Michel Serres and British historian Sir Geoffrey Lloyd are among the winners of this year's ...
Correction: Europe-Science Bonanza story
In a story Jan. 28 about a European Union science award, The Associated Press reported erroneously that €1 billion euros was equivalent to $1.
2 Americans, 1 Swede share Crafoord science prize
Two Americans and a Swede have won this year's Crafoord Prize, a 4 million kronor ($600,000) scientific award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

Race is on for EU's $1.3 billion science projects
Call it Europe's Got Talent for geeks. Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them ...
Israeli prize honors foreign scientists, architect
Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize this year will honor American, German and Austrian scientists as well as an architect from Portugal. Wolf winners are ...