Americans Harvey J.Alter and Charles M.Rice and British born scientist Michael Houghton won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on 5th October 2020 for their discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide.

Three scientists share this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics for advancing our understanding of Black Hole - Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez.

Nobel Prize 2020 for Chemistry jointly received by Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jenifer A.Doudna for working on gene technology.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Program for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has swept around the world with devastating impact.

Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson were awarded the Nobel in Economic Science for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.

NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REX collects samples on Asteroid Bennu. Asteroid Bennu is currently more than 321 million kilometers from the Earth.

Researchers have found evidence of a ‘Lost’ river that ran through the central Thar Desert near Bikaner as early as 1,72,000 years ago.