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The award, sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provides $1.3 million in funding over five years to each of ...

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A team of physicists won the Ig Nobel Prize for cracking the code to perfect cacio e pepe. Their clever study revealed how starch and temperature control can transform a lumpy sauce into creamy ...

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in ...

Uranus' moon Ariel could have had liquid water 100 miles deep, hidden under its icy crust, possibly making it yet another ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT as most people call it, stands ...

Real-world experiments and computer simulations support the controversial idea that the Moai statues on Rapa Nui were walked into place.

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A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.