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Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the get-go. According to the Nobel Foundation, other laureates had to overcome major academic challenges before going on to win the prestigious Nobel.

The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week

Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered an Oscar contender.

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and was herself awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935 together with her husband, Frederic Joliot.

Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. Since taking office in January, the US president has cut billions of dollars in funding, attacked universities' academic freedoms and overseen…

Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights unusual scientific research that provides both laughter and insight. Here are this year’s winners.

Is there an author more fêted and adored in Australia right now than Alexis Wright? In the two years since the publication of her fourth novel, Praiseworthy (2023), she has been garlanded with awards and ascended to new heights of international recognition, including entering the betting table last year as…

Physics applied to study exotic materials in industries helps cook perfect pasta sauce

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly bights are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels

Researchers into idea to blend powdered PTFE into food as a zero-calorie filler to curb hunger win chemistry prize

Makes sense if he's a big fan of mass death!