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The Nobel Prizes this year are an AI bonanza

Not one but two prizes went to AI research.

Breathing through the anus, fake side effects, and mimicking artificial plants: It's Ig Nobel season

The prizes this year were something else.

Licking rocks and speaking backwards: the weirder side of science

They might not be as famous as the “real” Nobels but we all look forward to them.

The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize goes to the United Nations for its efforts in feeding the world's hungry

A cause worthy of our praises -- and Prizes.

Nobel Prize: Trio of scientists honored for discovering Hepatitis C virus

The discovery has likely saved millions.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to trio that created today's lithium-ion batteries

Whenever you poke at your phone, hit the power button on your laptop, or start your Tesla, know that the work of these three laureates made it possible.

Trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for uncovering how cells sense and adapt to oxygen levels

Oxygen keeps the world turning. Well not really, but it's important for cells.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for cool new tricks in electron microscopy

They're the guys that tell proteins "freeze!"

The 2016 Nobel Prize run-down

Gotta catch them all!

The 2016 Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Bob Dylan for poems on music

He said "it ain't me babe" -- but the committee proved him wrong.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to duo of contract theoreticians

Sign at the bottom for Prize.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to trio of molecular machine pioneers

Tiny gears to start a huge revolution.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to trio of topological experts

Bagel physics begets a prize.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on autophagy

"I was surprised. I was in my lab," the professor recalls.

Rats in underwear, goatman, and VW engineers are among the 2016 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize

One of the most awesome events happening in science since 1991.

2015 Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine Awarded

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is split into three parts, being divided between William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura -- who jointly share a half "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" -- and Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria."

Nobel prize for chemistry awarded for the discovery of the structure of quasicrystals

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to a single scientist, which is less common than you might think, for the discovery of the structure of quasicrystals. When this new structure was first proposed, to say that it stirred controversy would be putting it light; at first, the idea was so outside of the general consensus, […]

Chinese disident wins Nobel Peace Prize

In a slapp across Beijing’s face, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to imprisoned Chinese scholar Liu Xiaobo, for “his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. The decision of the Nobel jury goes totally against the Chinese government, who claims Liu Xiaobo is nothing more than a criminal. The Nobel […]

76 recipients of the Nobel Prize endorse Obama

This year’s election is among the most significant in America’s history. The people need a visionary leader that could get the nation out of the way towards the dark ages, and that can make this country play its crucial role in the world. Under the Bush administration, scientific issues have been politicized in such a […]

Glowing jellyfish earns Nobel Prize

This year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry has been earned by three scientists who researched into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish. They will split the prize which has been given to them for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein GFP. Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; […]