Topic: Ig Nobel Prizes
Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The awards that dare to ask whether you ...
The AI Nobel Prizes Could Change the Focus of Research
It has been a billboard week for artificial intelligence research. But could big wins for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton ...
Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data
Five regions of the planet were claimed to hold the key to living past 100. Research by Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford ...
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Japanese Researchers Feature Regularly Among Ig Nobel Prizewinners
The Ig Nobel Prize draws attention to scientific research that is humorous, but also thought-provoking. Japanese researchers have been among the winners for the past 18 years. The 2024 Ig Nobel ...
The Nobel Prize In Economics Is An Insiders’ Club Whose Time Has Passed
The Nobel Prize in Economics has become too insular, rewarding economists from elite institutions and reinforcing established ...
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David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper win chemistry Nobel prize for protein structure design and prediction
This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old ...
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins — life's building blocks
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for ...
Why were a pair of AI pioneers awarded the Nobel Prize in physics?
Until this year, the Nobel Prize for physics has typically gone to pioneers in that field, like last year’s winners who used ...
Nobel Updates: Peace Prize Is Awarded to Japanese Group of Atomic Bomb Survivors
Nihon Hidankyo is a grass-roots movement of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group’s efforts have helped establish a “nuclear taboo,” the Nobel committee said.