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 ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts. The 34th First Annual Ig ...

Make your paper airplane, grab a comfortable seat and get ready to laugh, and then think, while we introduce the 34 th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize winners. Looking to address the challenges of ...

Prize-winner Felipe Yamashita of Germany's Bonn ... Lead researcher Frantisek Bartos told AFP the team was excited to become Ig Nobel laureates. "Although it's a 'parody' prize, it is very nice ...

The awards, most of which date to 1901, are intended to go to those who “ have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind ,” ...

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to two American scientists for their work on microRNA.

U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian colleague Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for ...

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

Two scientists credited with laying the “foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” University of Toronto professor ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts. The 34th First Annual Ig ...