The 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, and once again prove that science can be funny, which only sometimes gets in ...

Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...

Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...

Every year Ig Nobel prizes are handed out to unusual science that 'makes people laugh, then think'. The Swiss winner of the Ig Nobel 2024 for medicine talks to SWI swissinfo.ch about why his ...

Queen Elizabeth, known for her humility, was approached about being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Commonwealth, but wasn’t interested in the recognition.

Davies is a wide-ranging thinker, but there is a common thread in his work: he is a connoisseur of fraud and failure. (He has already given readers of this column the unforgettable story of the time ...

While Nobel Prize announcements have always been newsworthy celebrations of discovery, recent years’ events have been ...

WATCH: 3 economists who study how weak institutions affect prosperity win 2024 Nobel Prize The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A.

Here are the winners of the six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science ...

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed and others fail. The three ...

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. In his will, Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and industrialist, directed that his fortune be ...