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Fingernails And Indigestion At The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes

The Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate unusual scientific research—this year including lizard pizza preferences and fingernail growth. Read More

Decades of Advancement, Discovery Honored in 2025 Science Nobel Prizes

From Oct. 6-8, the Nobel Foundation announced the recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics for advances in quantum mechanics, the prize in physiology or medicine for immune system breakthroughs and ... Read More

Science history: Astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers a signal of 'little green men,' but her adviser gets the Nobel Prize — Nov. 28, 1967

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio pulsar. The signal, once described as coming from "little green men," would ... Read More

At BYU, Nobel Prize-winning modern Galileo talks about his work that helped prove Einstein right about gravitational waves

Utah native Kip Thorne, who helped conceive the movie “Interstellar,” is excited about the future of gravitational wave research. Read More

Coya Therapeutics Congratulates Scientific Advisor Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for Receiving The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of Regulatory T Cells and Immune ...

Coya Therapeutics Congratulates Scientific Advisor Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi for Receiving The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of Regulatory T Cells and Immune Function Coya ... Read More

Nobel Prize winners’ thesis is a harsh warning for crypto

The trio of scientists have been awarded the Nobel Physics Prize “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” The Nobel Laureates ... Read More

UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record

University of California faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes this week, highlighting the ongoing contributions of America’s #1 public research university and the central role of federal funding ... Read More

James Watson, Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of double-helix DNA, dead at 97

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The ... Read More