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 ...

Demis Hassabis, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, shared insights on AI at the FT Pharma and Biotech Summit.

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 ...

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

The family of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi have accused the Iranian regime of trying to bring about her ...

The National Hurricane Center designated an area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean Sea as Potential Tropical Cyclone ...

One of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes was awarded posthumously to Burrhus F. Skinner (1904-1990), a well-known American ...

Economists who sign letters of support for the Democrat should be ready to present their evidence.

Today, we’re trading tricks for treats. And by treats, of course, we mean good news. Here are the feel-good stories you might ...

This year's Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their ...

At this point, controversies should not be a surprise when it comes to the Nobel prizes, especially not for literature. With a sexual assault scandal, the awarding of a genocide denier and its ...

When the Swedish Academy awarded Dylan with a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, there was much contention already. Although he's authored a few poetry books, his contributions don't have much to ...