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Researchers Share $22m Breakthrough Prize as Science Gets Rock Star Treatment
"It’s really not a mathematician kind of thing, but I’ll probably survive." - C. Hacon
Aaron Swartz Fellowship
The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives awards a fellowship each year either to an unconventional technology expert early in his/her career, or a scholar or activist working at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and technology studies or technological solutions.
Choose Your Breakthrough of the Year
From cancer advances to the cosmos, what's your top choice?
World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias
World's First 'Negative Findings' Science Prize Aims to Tackle Publication Bias
ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum has announced the world’s first prize of 10,000 EUR for publishing ‘negative’ scientific results.
Top Swiss Science Prize Gets Boost
The Marcel Benoist Prize – the “Swiss Nobel Prize” for science – is to get a new look ahead of its centenary.
Three Men Just Won a Nobel Prize for the Work of More Than a Thousand People
1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
Ripples in Space: U.S. Trio Wins Physics Nobel for Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish, who led the famed LIGO experiment.
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
How Fair Is It for Just Three People to Receive the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Alfred Nobel didn’t foresee the current era of mega scientific collaboration.
LIGO's Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish Win Physics Nobel
The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Method to Visualise Biomolecules
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson receive £825,000 prize for developing method for generating 3D images of life-building structures.
U.S. Trio Win Nobel for Finding Einstein's Gravitational Waves
Three U.S. scientists won the 2017 Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday for opening up a new era of astronomy by detecting gravitational waves, ripples in space and time foreseen by Albert Einstein a century ago.
The Problem with Nobel Prizes and the Myth of the Lone Genius
Jenny Rohn: Restricting Nobel prizes to three individuals has always been problematic, and increasingly glosses over the contributions of everyday scientists.
Medicine Nobel Prize Goes to Circadian Rhythm Researchers
Three U.S. scientists share the 2017 award.
Body Clock Scientists Win Nobel
Three scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell time have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
And the Sentinel Award Goes To...
Congratulations to Irene Hames, the winner of Publons' inaugural Sentinel Award - for outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.
Solid and Liquid Cats, Didgeridoos and Cheese Disgust Scoop Ig Nobel Awards
Scientists from around the globe gathered for annual ceremony celebrating research that ‘first makes you laugh, then makes you think’.
Lasker Prizes Recognize Work on Cell Growth, Cancer Prevention, and Reproductive Care
Michael N. Hall, John T. Schiller, and Douglas R. Lowy, winners of this year’s Lasker awards for basic and clinical medical research. "Planned Parenthood" honored as Republicans target it for funding cuts.
Sentinel Award Nominees
For outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.
