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2021 Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Decongestant Orgasms, Rhino Transport
Lisa Winter | Sep 14, 2021 | 2 min read
A full beard can absorb nearly 40 percent of the shock from a punch to the face, according to one winning study.
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What’s Next for Ancient DNA Studies After the Nobel?
Mary Prendergast, The Conversation | Oct 5, 2022 | 4 min read
The award highlights tremendous opportunities for aDNA as well as challenges related to rapid growth, equity, and misinformation.
Directed Evolution, Phage Display Nab Chemistry Nobel
Catherine Offord and Kerry Grens | Oct 3, 2018 | 4 min read
The 2018 award goes to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter, and George Smith.
Proliferation Of Scientific Prizes Reinforces Nobel's Distinguished Honor
Harriet Zuckerman | Nov 10, 1996 | 7 min read
Prizes in science-especially those with large honoraria-are proliferating. In North America alone, some 3,000 prizes are available in the sciences-five times as many as 20 years ago. In the same interval, the population of working scientists has grown, but at nothing like that clip. Like their predecessors, most new prizes are designed to honor those who have done significant research and, as a byproduct, to honor those who award them. Unlike most of their predecessors, many new prizes are ric
Nobels ripe for overhaul?
Katherine Bagley | Sep 29, 2009 | 2 min read
The Nobel Prize system is dated and in desperate need of an overhaul, a group of top scientists and engineers said today (September 30) in a linkurl:letter;http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17863-open-letter-to-the-nobel-prize-committee.html?full=true&print=true to the Nobel Foundation. Alfred Nobel Image: Wikimedia Commons In their letter, addressed to the foundation's executive director, Michael Sohlman, the researchers recommend that the awards should be broadened to include advancements
Breakthrough Prizes for Life Scientists
Tracy Vence | Dec 4, 2016 | 2 min read
Awards of $3 million each go to five researchers in the life sciences, recognizing their pioneering work on autophagy, DNA-damage response, Wnt signaling, and more.
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Luc Montagnier, Virologist who Codiscovered HIV, Dies at Age 89
Natalia Mesa, PhD | Feb 11, 2022 | 3 min read
The Nobel laureate had courted controversy in recent years on vaccines and other matters.
Eponymous Prizes Honor Scientists, But Draw Criticism
Robert Finn | Apr 12, 1998 | 9 min read
HONORED ACHIEVERS: Anne and Paul Ehrlich, winners of this year's Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, have collaborated on ecological research since the 1960s. On Friday, April 17, at a black-tie dinner in Los Angeles, noted environmentalists Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich will receive the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. They will be awarded a gold medallion and $200,000 for a collaboration that began in the early 1960s with field work on butterflies, continued with
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | Mar 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Evolving Ourselves, The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, Bats, and The Invaders
Notebook
The Scientist Staff | Oct 29, 1995 | 6 min read
ON THE BLOCK: An Ig Nobel celebrant won a date with Nobelist Dudley Herschbach. The Annals of Improbable Research followed tradition in its "Fifth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony," honoring the 1995 Ig Nobel laureates with its own special version of pomp. Prizes-awarded to those whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced"-were presented by Nobelists Sheldon Glashow (physics 1979), Dudley Herschbach (chemistry 1986), Joseph Murray (physiology or medicine 1990), and Richard Robe

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