The recognition and prestige of a Nobel prize for ground-breaking work comes with a gold medal and the equivalent of a ...

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You may think that everyone knows what a kiss is, but a pair of Oxford University academics have been awarded a spoof Nobel prize for devising a scientific definition.

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Science editor Ian Sample and Madeleine Finlay chat through their favourite winners of the 2026 Ig Nobel prizes for science that makes you laugh and then think ...

The annual awards highlight strange, funny and thought-provoking research. This year's ceremony took place in Europe, with ...

In attempting to rebut Eric Washburn’s op-ed, Howard’s central claim is that the amendment “does not limit the authority of CPW or the General Assembly.” Yet in the very same column, he laments — ...

Brain scans link music and imagination the way speech does, and strangers hearing the same tune pictured much the same scene.

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Ikigai is the Japanese concept of “what makes life worth living.” It might otherwise be described as a sense of fulfilment by ...

He entered IIT Kanpur as a student in 1982, completing his PhD in 1991... he later returned as a professor and, by and by, ...