What's in the Cards for This Year's Nobel Prizes?
Past laureates have their favorites and hunches, wrong though they usually are. As one 2018 winner said, "It's not helpful to second-guess these things!"
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Researchers Awarded Prize for Promotion of Alternatives to Animal Experiments
Researchers at Eawag have been awarded the 3R Swiss Competence Centre award for their outstanding research work representing a milestone in the promotion of alternatives to animal experiments.
Making Progress Towards Gender Parity and Increased Diversity
Many previous attempts at achieving gender parity - like special awards for women - are decried as tokenism, and seem unlikely to induce sustained and systemic change. Given this mindset, our research team decided to take a slightly different approach - with promising results.
Women Are Winning More Scientific Prizes, But Men Still Win the Most Prestigious Ones
A Nobel Opportunity for Interdisciplinarity
Despite the growing interdisciplinarity of research, the Nobel prize consolidates the traditional disciplinary categorization of science. There is, in fact, an opportunity for the most revered scientific reward to mirror the current research landscape.
Are the Nobel Prizes Good for Science?
Philip Ball looks at whether prizes and awards help or hinder scientific progress.
Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science
Scientific prizes confer credibility to persons, ideas, and disciplines, provide financial incentives, and promote community-building celebrations. The article examines the growth dynamics and interlocking relationships found in the worldwide scientific prize network.
Former Naturopath and Scientist Share John Maddox Prize
Scientist documenting coral reef decline and whistleblower on alternative therapy industry share award.
Nobel Prize for the Economics of Innovation and Climate Change Stirs Controversy
Nobel Prize for the Economics of Innovation and Climate Change Stirs Controversy
This year's prize for economics has sparked a rarer controversy. Some economists argue one winner's work is wrongheaded and has compromised humanity's ability to deal with the existential threat of climate change.
What the Nobels Are - and Aren’t - Doing to Encourage Diversity
The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough.
Why Nobel Prizes Fail 21st-century Science
It is the ultimate accolade, but critics claim the award is now out of step with modern collaborative research methods.
Ig Nobel Win for Roller Coaster Therapy
Riding on some types of roller-coaster is an effective way of removing kidney stones.
If You’ve Had Anesthesia, You Can Likely Thank This Veterinarian Who Just Won a Top Science Prize
Bell Burnell: Physics Star Gives Away GBP2.3M Prize
One of the UK's leading female astronomers is to donate her GBP2.3M winnings from a major science prize she was awarded. The sum will go to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.
The Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science
Publons' ECR Reviewers' Choice Awards
Publons’ ECR Reviewer Choice Award celebrates early-career researchers' exceptional contribution to peer review, recognizing an individual who has been influential in the realm of peer review or has significantly contributed to improving the system.
Fields Medal Winner Caucher Birkar Gets a New Medal After Original Prize Was Stolen
A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal on Saturday, organisers said.
Top Math Laureate Gets New Medal After Prize Stolen
A Kurdish refugee whose top mathematics prize was stolen minutes after he received the honor this week in Rio de Janeiro will get a replacement medal Saturday, organizers said.
Former refugee among winners of Fields medal - the 'Nobel prize for maths'
Caucher Birkar grew up on a farm near the Kurdish city of Marivan in Iran and spoke little English when he began his PhD.
Million-Dollar Kavli Prize Recognizes Scientist Scooped on CRISPR
Award goes to biochemists Virginijus Siksnys, whose lab independently developed the gene-editing tool, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna.
Call Prix Schläfli 2019
The “Alexander Friedrich Schläfli Prize” of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is one of the oldest prizes in Switzerland. Since the first awarding in 1866, 108 young talents in different natural science disciplines have been distinguished.
An Empirical Study of the per Capita Yield of Science Nobel Prizes: Is the US Era Coming to an End?
An Empirical Study of the per Capita Yield of Science Nobel Prizes: Is the US Era Coming to an End?
For the USA, the entire history of science Noble prizes is described on a per capita basis to an astonishing accuracy by a single large productivity boost decaying at a continuously accelerating rate since its peak in 1972.
Five Women Scientists in Developing Countries Win 2018 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards
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