Nature asks readers to name the women who have won a science Nobel — in ten questions and ten minutes

The piece turns the position of women in the science Nobels into a participatory quiz rather than a narrative article: readers type a surname or first name to guess laureates within a ten-minute window, and can click a revealed laureate to read about her work. Unlike the usual Nobel preview coverage, it casts the reader as an answerer rather than a bystander, presenting the same set of historical facts in interactive form. Based on the page structure described in the story: four questions plus a final challenge, a ten-minute timer, and an input field accepting a surname or first name.

The story supplies a concrete starting point: Marie Skłodowska-Curie is pre-filled. Born in Poland as Maria Skłodowska and later a French citizen, she coined the term 'radioactivity', shared half of the 1903 physics Nobel with her husband Pierre Curie, and won the 1911 chemistry prize for her discoveries of polonium and radium. Using a laureate who spans both physics and chemistry as the worked example makes visible that female laureates are not confined to a single prize category. Based on the entry text for this figure in the story, including birthplace, citizenship, prize years, prize categories and discoveries.

The story states its temporal boundary explicitly: the page covers Nobel prizewinners up to 2025 and will be updated with that year's winners. Putting the data cut-off in plain view tells readers which stretch of history the quiz answers correspond to. Based on the story's statement about data coverage and its update plan.

The story places the quiz in a wider context: since the prizes were first awarded in 1901, few women have been recognized in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine; the awarding academies have acknowledged that women are under-represented among laureates and have changed their nomination procedures to diversify the pool of winners, but men still dominate the 125-year history of the awards. Setting the quiz alongside this institutional change lets readers see not only a list but the mechanism discussion behind the list. Based on the story's opening passage, which mentions the academies' acknowledgement and the change to nomination procedures, and links to related coverage.

This page is aimed at general readers and science-communication settings, and fits use around Nobel announcements for outreach, classroom discussion or media interactives; it offers laureate data up to 2025 and biographical entries, so readers can see how female laureates are distributed across the three science prizes and follow revealed entries to read about the work behind them.

The page is mainly a quiz with biographical entries and does not, in the visible text, give a total count of female laureates or per-prize statistics, so a reader who wants to know 'how many' still needs to check elsewhere; the story also says the data will be updated with that year's winners, so any number drawn from the page carries a timestamp.