Nobel Prize 2026 · free for everyone
This year’s Nobel Prizes, explained by nearchon
Every year the Nobel Prizes go to ideas that changed science. We turn each one into a short interactive course you can play like a game: our cat teacher explains, you try it with your own hands, then answer a question.
- No sign-up
- Starts from zero
- With voice
- Works on your phone
IceCube: catching ghost particles from space
How a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice catches neutrinos, the shyest particles in the universe. Learn atoms, charges, light that outruns light in ice, and how a telescope buried at the South Pole found them.
- Francis Halzen
- Lessons
- 11
- Time
- ~35 min
- Level
- From zero
Optogenetics: switching brain cells on with light
How a tiny swimming alga gave scientists a light switch for neurons. Learn the biology, the physics of light, the engineering of optical fibres, and how it is starting to give sight back to blind people.
- Karl Deisseroth
- Peter Hegemann
- Georg Nagel
- Lessons
- 12
- Time
- ~40 min
- Level
- From zero
Based on the Nobel Committees’ explanations for Physics and Medicine. More 2026 prizes are announced this week.