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2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on Tipsy Bats and Pasta Physics
Tipsy Bats and Perfect Pasta Win Ig Nobel Prizes for Weird Science Research Winners of the annual Ig Nobel awards include the science of tipsy bats and the physics of cacio e pepe By Chris Simms & Nature magazine Physicists studied the phase transitions that occur while making the pasta dish cacio e pepe. Many…
Breakthrough Prizes Awarded to Obesity-Drug Pioneers and Large Hadron Collider Physicists
Obesity-Drug Pioneers and Large Hadron Collider Physicists win $3-Million Breakthrough Prizes Advances recognized by science’s most lucrative awards include high-energy physics experiments and groundbreaking weight-loss treatments By Zeeya Merali & Nature magazine The Breakthrough prize trophy’s design is inspired by imagery from science, including black holes, seashells and the structure of DNA. Five scientists who…
This Year’s Nobel Prizes Are a Warning about AI
Opinion This Year’s Nobel Prizes Are a Warning about AI Unless we pursue AI carefully, the Nobel committee will one day give a Peace Prize to the people cleaning up its terrible consequences, just as it did with nuclear physics By Y Cooper A man wheels his bicycle thorough Hiroshima, Japan, days after the city…