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Nobel prizes: the 2025 science awards

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, our correspondents give their guide to this year’s prizes in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine

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This year’s Nobel laureates have now been announced

There are prizes for chemical cages, new immune cells and the roots of quantum computing

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Hover flies are long-distance travellers

The pollen they carry stirs continent-wide gene pools

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What American voters really think of the revenge agenda

A third of Republicans support deporting citizens who disagree with Donald Trump

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Hamas says there is “a spirit of optimism” over peace talks

But it is not clear if it will accept a partial Israeli withdrawal 

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Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade

Six months on from “Liberation Day”, things look surprisingly rosy

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The prophets of illiberal progress

Terrible things have been done in their name

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Three post-war liberals strove to establish the meaning of freedom

Berlin, Rawls and Nozick put their faith in the sanctity of the individual

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Hayek, Popper and Schumpeter formulated a response to tyranny

Their lives and reputations diverged, but their ideas were rooted in the traumas of their shared birthplace

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Was John Maynard Keynes a liberal?

People should be free to choose. It was their freedom not to choose that troubled him

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De Tocqueville and the French exception

The gloomiest of the great liberals worried that democracy might not be compatible with liberty

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Against the tyranny of the majority

John Stuart Mill’s warning still resonates today