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 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is unveiling the winner — or winners — of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, ...

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

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, ...

The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated ...

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the ...

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

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