It may not help us predict their behavior, but the author thinks it will help people understand physics better.

Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...

Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

Japan-U.S. team wins Ig Nobel prize for anal breathing study ...

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This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

The son of engineers, Jumper grew up on a quiet 10-acre plot outside Little Rock, Arkansas, with a deep love for science ...

The National Hurricane Center designated an area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean Sea as Potential Tropical Cyclone ...

The family of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi have accused the Iranian regime of trying to bring about her ...

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...