Nobel Prize
Give Stephen Hawking a Nobel Prize
The criteria for judging science's most coveted prize should be reexamined
If I ruled the world: Joyce Carol Oates
We would worship chickens. Not God
Günter Grass was Germany’s troubled conscience
The author acknowledged the extent of his complicity with the Nazis before his death
World Thinkers 2015: Jean Tirole
Economist. France
Beyond relativity
A century after Einstein produced his great theory, it might let us see gravity's waves
Nobel Prize for Physics 2014: why blue LEDs have changed the world
This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has gone to three Japanese scientists who gave us blue light-emitting diodes, used daily in traffic lights
Who will win this year’s science Nobel Prizes?
The field is wide open for this year's most prestigious scientific awards
Meeting Gabriel García Márquez
He winked at me, as if acknowledging a fellow voyeur
Is 2013 the year of the short story?
Is Alice Munro's Nobel Prize victory the final acknowledgment of the return of the short story? To celebrate here are some Prospect short fiction highlights
The Daily Briefing: Friday 11 October
Radical conservatism, bean-counting and dealing with default
The Higgs universe
The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics waited 48 years for the confirmation of his theory, but in some ways he grew to dread the moment of discovery