Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The awards that dare to ask whether you ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who ...

Winners are awarded $250,000 ... won for work on how Earth’s early conditions paved the way for nature’s present biodiversity ...

Prize-winner Felipe Yamashita of Germany's Bonn ... Lead researcher Frantisek Bartos told AFP the team was excited to become Ig Nobel laureates. "Although it's a 'parody' prize, it is very nice ...

Other Ig Nobel Prize winners this year included researchers who explored the probability of a flipped coin landing on the same side, the use of chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms and ...

Recipients of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, literature, peace, and economic sciences will be announced over the coming week.

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

The awards, most of which date to 1901, are intended to go to those who “ have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind ,” ...

The three economists “have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity,” the Nobel ...

The Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to American David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for separate work in ...

A trio of U.S. academics won the prize for economic after finding that authoritarian governments inhibit growth and ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements kicked off on October 7, honoring groundbreaking contributions in fields such as medicine, ...