Nobel Prize

In war-torn South Sudan, Makur Diet knows all too well the horror of conflict. Over ten years ago, he lost his leg to a bullet. Despairing for his future, Makur was close to giving up, until one day he was given a prosthetic leg, and with it a new lease of life. Makur now devotes…

Lost and Found tells the inspiring story of humanity in the world’s largest refugee camp. The film follows Kamal Hussein, a Rohingya refugee who has dedicated his life to reuniting children with their parents with the support of the double Nobel Prize-awarded organisation, the Lost and Found, from National Geographic Documentary Films, is the result…

An international team of scientists and explorers, lead by Dr Julian Bayliss, go on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to reach a forest that no human has set foot in.  The team, including some of the world’s foremost climate change experts, aims to collect data from the forest to help in our understanding of how…

In an area of Iraq destroyed by ISIS, Hana Khider leads an all-female team of Yazidi deminers in their attempts to clear the land of mines. Their job involves painstakingly searching for booby traps in bombed out buildings and fields, where one wrong move means certain death.  Hana works for the Mines Advisory Group, an…

Whether it is scientific innovation, healthy diets or pollution-free cities, the future we want will be determined by what we prioritise today, and how societies are organised to deliver those priorities. On a warm November morning in Bengaluru, a packed auditorium of students sat on the edge of their seats as Nobel Prize laureates and…

Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals continue to build on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In this short clip from the film Bloodlines, Mississippi, we follow a doctor’s mission to advocate for an often-overlooked community facing preventable losses. Short clip: “Bloodlines, Mississippi” Despite advances in diabetes treatment, amputations continue to devastate communities…

Although still in its early stages, quantum computing is advancing rapidly, along with quantum technologies as a whole. Nobel Prize-awarded work on entangled quantum states and quantum mechanical tunnelling were driving forces behind this progress. Applications of quantum technologies are anticipated to improve our daily lives and contribute to solving global challenges. Quantum mechanics underpins…

Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals continue to build on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In the short clip Shadows in Sunlight, directed by Ruhi Hamid, we follow Ishrat Rahim who vaccinates children against polio in Pakistan.  Short clip: “Shadows in Sunlight” Ishrat Rahim is one of almost 400,000 women working across…

From the glow of blue LEDs to the ‘miracle’ of IVF, the Nobel Prize celebrates individuals whose discoveries have changed the world. These six innovations and discoveries not only improve our daily lives, but save them and help create new ones. At a glance The discovery of blood groups enabled safe transfusions IVF helped millions…

Students meet chemistry laureate Benjamin List , Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry 2021, was joined by 10 students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. List gave his best advice for maintaining a science career, spoke about green chemistry and shared…