• British university hails Nobel physics winners
• Vatican: It's out of order!  • African woman poet wins Nobel Literature Prize?

"I find the choice of Robert Edwards completely out of order".

• Robert G. Edwards wins Nobel prize for medicine
• The story of 'merchant of death' Alfred Nobel

Robert G. Edwards, the father of the test tube baby, has won the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.

A French false obituary made Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel immediately change his will - and donate most of his fortune.

• 'Father of test tube baby' wins Nobel prize for medicine
• Last will and testament of Alfred Nobel
• Chinese dissident tipped as Peace Prize winner

Danish book reviles: "Doctors did not count on curing them completely, but wanted to pacify them".

• Pain management for dying patients in Finland

• Sweden a good place to die – but Britain is best

A simple genetic test can help predict whether psychopaths convicted of violent crimes are prone to be repeat offenders.

A Swedish medical scientist at the University of Gothenburg manipulated and altered a long line of research results.

The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan – a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns threaten food security.

• 'Water pollution is on the rise globally'
• 'Climate bad boy' urges billions on clean tech 

Seed from a new genetically modified potato in a field in Sweden.

By spending 100 billion dollars a year on green technologies, the world could essentially resolve the climate change problem.

Women who use snuff tobacco face 60% higher miscarriage risk.

• 60 Minutes hails Swedish snus
• Swedish politician sells illegal drugs in Brussels

World Water Week director: "Climate change is really mainly about water and it has huge implications for water pollution".

• Only a 'miracle' can save the Baltic Sea

"There is a real need to review the system", the WHO said as Sweden's breast cancer deaths drops surprisingly slow.

The icy waters around Norway's archipelago of Svalbard may seem clear – but are facing disastrous effects of acidification.

New studies goes against accepted wisdom even among doctors.

From slimming supplements to prescription drugs, pharmacies are full of products destined to help lose weight, but their use can come at great expense, both financially and health-wise.

A Swiss professor won million-dollar Millennium Technology award.
Watch the video on the ground-breaking invention.

Science: Short people 50 percent likelier to die of heart disease.

First association between intellectual performance and suicide.

Sweden's top-rated Karolinska Institute has inked a global research partnership with a U.S. life science organisation.

Science: People with dented smiles run a far greater risk of dying of heart disease than those who still have all their pearly whites.