Mathematician Gerd Faltings wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery
Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel PrizePeter Badge/Typos1 Gerd Faltings has won the 2026…
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Scientist Who Was Offline ‘Living His Best Life’ Stunned by Nobel Prize Win
It’s a cute little town. I’d love to go back and spend more time, but…
Why Our Brains, Our Selves won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize
The human brain is one of the most complex objects to have ever existedAndriy Onufriyenko/Getty…
Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza…
Two Students Awarded Stuart Gaffin Prize for Sustainable Development Leadership – State of the Planet
Two graduating seniors from the Sustainable Development Class of 2025 were honored with the Gaffin…
Dennis Gaitsgory Wins Breakthrough Prize for Solving Part of Math’s Grand Unified Theory
The Langlands program has been described by mathematician Edward Frankel as the “grand unified theory…
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Elizabeth Kolbert Is Cataloging the Climate Crisis – State of the Planet
As a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, Elizabeth Kolbert has spent decades…
2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS
The International Space StationMSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the…
What is microRNA and why did its discovery merit this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine? – Healthcare Economist
This year, the Nobel Prize in medicine went to Victor…
$1m prize for AI that can solve puzzles that are simple for humans
Can you solve this puzzle?Mike Knoop A set of puzzles that will challenge even today’s…