The Ig Nobel prizes are famed for their spotlighting of offbeat research. Nature investigates how some winners feel about their ‘honour’. Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991 ...

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Most of what we know about humans living to very old age is based on allegedly faulty data, including the science behind the ...

The 'Game of Thrones' star's summer social media post praising Olga Tokarczuk’s work has garnered over 13 million views.

Jimmy Carter, a no-frills Southern governor with a mile-wide smile who was elected president in 1976 and served only one term ...

He brokered the landmark Camp David Accords in 1978, establishing a framework for peace in the Middle East, and he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work in advancing ...

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote ...

Dr. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori made history as the first woman in America to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947. Her groundbreaking research with her husband, Dr. Carl Cori, ...

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote ...

In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their ...

James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr, a naval officer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and peanut farm operator who became governor of ...

Four leading scientists have won awards hailed as the “Polish Nobel Prizes” from a foundation in Warsaw. Polish upper-house Speaker Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska attends the awards ceremony in ...