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We dive into the profound regret that J. Robert Oppenheimer felt about his involvement in the creation of the atomic bomb. As one of the key scientists behind the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer ...

Merton won a Nobel Prize in economics in 1997 for a method to determine the value of derivatives and has been thinking deeply on the subject of trust for decades. What follows is a lightly edited ...

From stuffing pigeons into missiles to discovering that animals can breathe through their anuses, the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ...

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The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, ...

Dr. Christian Brahms will use £2 million in funding to develop a groundbreaking light source for attosecond laser pulses, ...

In a stark demonstration of how award-winning breakthroughs can come from the most unlikely directions, researchers have won ...

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