Win a Nobel-themed luxury food hamper
Win ten replica chocolate Nobel medals, a sumptuous hamper of Swedish delicacies and case of celebratory champagne to toast your triumph in our prize draw
Real Holodeck turns your living room into a game
Microsoft's RoomAlive places users inside games that spread across the floors, walls and furniture for a fully immersive experience
How your life changes when you win a Nobel prize
What happens after you scoop the ultimate accolade in science? Six past winners recall the impact of receiving a Nobel prize
Birds colour-match their nests for camouflage
The clever camouflage of bird nests is no coincidence – birds actively choose the right colour to blend in
Discoverers of brain's satnav win Nobel prize
Nobel prize in physiology or medicine goes to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, who located our inner GPS
The first micro-masterpieces to wow the public
Londoners had never seen anything like it when the Royal Society exhibited these photomicrographs in 1904, opening up visions of life at tiny scales
Should we upgrade photosynthesis and grow supercrops?
A long-awaited breakthrough by crop scientists raises some thorny issues for conservation. Michael Le Page proposes a radical solution
Forensics is stranger than fiction, says crime writer
Telling the truth about science can help create the suspension of disbelief that is vital to good fiction, says crime novelist Val McDermid
The world is warming faster than we thought
Years of poor temperature readings in the oceans of the southern hemisphere may mean global warming has been massively underestimated
What drug-data ruling means for pharma firms and you
A battle has been raging between campaigners for greater transparency on drug data and the European Medicines Agency. Yesterday, the regulator announced its plans
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