the 34th annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was organized by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine’s website to make people laugh and think. Winners ...

Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The awards that dare to ask whether you ...

The Nobel Foundation offers prizes in only three disciplines, but other awards have been created to honor scientists in ...

We caught up with one of this year’s winners, Saul Justin Newman, a senior research fellow at the University College London ...

The 2024 Ig Nobel awards were given out this month, recognizing some of the funnier contributions to science. The ceremony, which has been held annually since 1991, tends to highlight the sort of ...

Practise your English with our short listening exercises: play the audio; answer the questions; and check the answers at the ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements kicked off on October 7, honoring groundbreaking contributions in fields such as medicine, ...

This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old ...

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny bits of genetic ...

The Nobel, awarded to David Baker of the University of Washington and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, ...

Nobel Prize in Physics winner Geoffrey Hinton says humanity will soon be developing things 'more intelligent than us.' He ...

A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead ...