Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

The prize was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis.

By Ali Watkins

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its immune responses.

By Gina Kolata and Ali Watkins

His Off-the-Grid Vacation Was Interrupted by Winning a Nobel Prize

Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.

By John Yoon

If Your North Star Is Lost, New Techniques Can Point You South

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other methods fail.

By Joshua Sokol

Trilobites

Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance Tied to Culprit Other Than Ice

The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began.

By Sara Novak

What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life

The detection of the molecule phosphine in a brown dwarf’s atmosphere may help astronomers in their search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way.

By Katrina Miller

Stunning 12,000-Year-Old Rock Art Emerges in Saudi Arabia

The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early settlement in the region following the Ice Age.

By Franz Lidz

Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”

By Keith Schneider

Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures

The primatologist gained scientific acclaim for her work with chimpanzees and then later used her fame to champion conservation.

By Alexa Robles-Gil and Laurence Tan

Jane Goodall’s Thoughts for a Reporter: ‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’

A Times correspondent who interviewed Dr. Goodall recalled their conversations about the state of the planet.

By Catrin Einhorn

‘There Will Always Only Be One Jane Goodall’

Scientists reflect on the life and work of a researcher whose discoveries made them rethink what it means to be human.

By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes

What Jane Goodall Taught Us About Living a Long Life

The scientist, who died at 91 on Wednesday, was a model for healthy aging.

By Dana G. Smith and Nina Agrawal

He Was Expected to Get Alzheimer’s 25 Years Ago. Why Hasn’t He?

Scientists are searching for the secret in Doug Whitney’s biology that has protected him from dementia, hoping it could lead to ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s for many other people.

By Pam Belluck and M. Scott Brauer

Ideas

Autism, A.D.H.D., Anxiety: Can a Diagnosis Make You Better?

As our diagnostic categories expand to include ever milder versions of disease, researchers propose that the act of naming a malady can itself bring relief.

By Ellen Barry