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By the late 1980s AI had fallen into disrepute, a byword for overpromising and underdelivering. Those researchers still in ...

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 ...

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

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have ...

The Ig Nobel Prize, known for celebrating quirky and humorous scientific achievements, recently honored a groundbreaking ...

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Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition, held a month before the real Nobel prizes. The physiology prize went to Japanese and US researchers for discovering that many mammals can breathe ...

Held less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced, the 34th annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was organized by the Annals of Improbable ...

The winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for Physiology have found that all mammals can breathe through their backsides. While some may claim it’s an asinine joke, researchers wondered if ...