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 ...
Some Scientists May Never Win a Nobel, but They Still Deserve Big Prizes
The Nobel Foundation offers prizes in only three disciplines, but other awards have been created to honor scientists in ...
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 ...
Listen Up: Strange scientific discoveries unveiled at quirky Ig Nobel Awards
Practise your English with our short listening exercises: play the audio; answer the questions; and check the answers at the ...
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 ...
Nobel Prize for chemistry goes to American, 2 Google scientists in Britain
The Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to American David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for separate work in ...
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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 ...
Google AI helped researchers win two Nobel Prizes this week
While AI was helping win multiple Nobel Prizes this week, we saw the release of Google's Imagen 3, Zoom's AI Companion, and ...
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Nobel Prize 2024 Winners: Full List Of Remarkable Achievements Across All Categories
The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements kicked off on October 7, honoring groundbreaking contributions in fields such as medicine, ...
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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 ...