Sentinels of Science recipients 2016
Publons top overall contributors to peer review in science and research.
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MacArthur Fellows 2016
MacArthur Fellowships, or "Genius Grants" are awarded annually to between 20 and 30 individuals who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the US.
Controversy over eye-catching new Nobel Center
Critics say the big new building will ruin the city's historic skyline
Lasker Awards Given for Work in Physiology, Virology and Science Education
The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education.
Digital Science Reveals Catalyst Grant Winners
Etalia, Simiary and Writefull, three companies aiming to disrupt the academic space, are the latest recipients of the Catalyst Grant award for innovative startups.
Nobel-Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 70
Ahmed H. Zewail, an Egyptian-American who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for developing a revolutionary technique to observe the dance of molecules as they break apart and come together in chemical reactions, died on Tuesday. He was 70.
Rewarding Disobedience
The $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award: to a person or group engaged in disobedience for the benefit of society.
Royal Society science medal and awards winners
Scientific awards, medals and prizes awarded by the Royal Society in 2016.
Research into the sex life of the screwworm turned out to be very, very important
A scientific study into the “sex life of the screwworm” – once ridiculed as a waste of money – is to be given a US award designed to recognise research that might sound silly or odd but is actually important. Its findings led to the development of “the only truly original innovation in insect control” of the 20th century, credited with the eradication of the screwworm fly from North and Central America.
2016 Golden Goose Awards
The Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly, or how Eradicating screwworm has saved U.S. ranchers Billions of $ since screwworms were eradicated from US in 1966.
Top science fair gets a new sponsor, as biotech ascends
Over the years, the nation has looked toward different kinds of science for its salvation, and science fairs have changed with the times.
Gravitational wave scientists win $3m Special Breakthrough Prize
Following their February breakthrough, Kip Thorne, Rainer Weiss, Ronald Drever and nearly 1,000 LIGO scientists will share the Silicon Valley-backed prize.
Wellcome Image Awards: Inside the human eye
Peter Maloca from University of Basel is one of the winners of the Wellcome Image Awards 2016.
Fermat's Last Theorem proof secures mathematics' top prize for Sir Andrew Wiles
The solution to a 300-year-old mystery has landed Oxford University Professor Sir Andrew Wiles the top international prize for mathematics.
Brain Prize Winners Announced
Three UK neuroscientists jointly win the €1 million European Brain Prize for their work on memory.
The 20 best science images of the year?
From multicoloured scans of the human body, to vivid photos of creatures up close - the finalists of the annual Wellcome Image Awards.
Lasker Awards go to five scientists and gateses
The "American Nobels" will go this year to three scientists who helped deaf people to hear, two others who made fundamental discoveries about how the brain works, and two of the world's best-known philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates.
Make science more reliable, win cash prizes
Honoring young researchers who champion rigorous, transparent research is a small step towards changing the culture of science.
Breakthrough prizes give top scientists the rock star treatment
The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student.
Nobel laureates who were not always noble
Racists, frauds, and misogynists: meet the rogues’ gallery of Nobel Prize winners.
The folly of big science awards
Major awards honor the scientists who are usually in the least need of recognition and funding, which squeezes out opportunities for other scientists.
Is the 2015 Nobel Prize a turning point for traditional Chinese medicine?
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to a researcher who spent her entire career researching traditional Chinese medicine...
On being awarded the Nobel prize
Interviews with Nobel prize winners on being awarded the Nobel prize.
2014 Golden Goose Award winners
The Golden Goose Award is a new award that recognizes scientists and engineers whose federally funded research has had significant human and economic benefits.
Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths
Maryam Mirzakhani is among four young researchers to win Fields Medals, awarded every four years.
With prizes like this, who needs a Nobel?
Five mathematicians, working in a field spurned by Stockholm and Oslo as a matter of course, will now receive $3 million awards of their own It started with a simple message from Internet billionaire Yuri Milner: let's meet up.
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