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Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009
Aspirin crystals M I Walker, Wellcome Images Every year, a panel of judges at London's Wellcome Collection of medical photographs selects the best of the year's acquisitions. This striking collection,...
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This Year's MacArthur Fellowship Grants: Meet the New Class of Science Geniuses
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This Year's Ig Nobel Prize: Fruit Bat Fellatio, Whale Snot, and More Weird...
Ig Nobel Prize Creative Commons: Jeff Dlouhy If the MacArthur "Genius" Grants announced earlier this week were too staid for you, the Ig Nobel Prize (now in its 20th year--here's last year's coverage)...
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded For Graphene, the Material of the Future
Graphene Nanobubble Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory View Photo GalleryThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics today to University of Manchester professors Andre...
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Carbon Is So Hot Right Now: Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Carbon-Bonding Technique
Chemistry Nobel Honorees, 2010 University of Delaware, Purdue University, Hokkaido University First graphene, now this: Carbon is just the hottest element on the block these days. The 2010 Nobel Prize...
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13-Year-Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci Sequence
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Enter the 2012 Popular Science Invention Awards
The Popular Science Invention Awards John B. Carnett Do you have an invention you KNOW will someday change the world? Have you been toiling for years in your basement, building prototype after...
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Meet The 2012 MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Scientists
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Which City Has The Most Nobel Prize Winners? [Infographic]
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The 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft's Imagine Cup
The Imagine Cup winners gather onstage at the awards ceremony Julie Beck View Photo GalleryClick here to enter the gallery.At the afterparty for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a worldwide student technology...
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The Coolest Winning Projects from the Imagine Cup 2013
Dek ArrayTeam Colinked's soundSYNK app improves that moment when your friend insists that you have to hear this new song RIGHT NOW, and a large group of people crowds around a small smartphone to...
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The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes: Drunk People Feel Sexy, And More Of The Year's...
Proud Ig Nobel Winners Ig Nobel Prizes Last night were the Ig Nobel Prizes, the most important of Nobel Prize ceremonies. The ceremony honors the year's strangest--but also very good!--scientific...
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Meet The 2013 MacArthur 'Genius' Scientists
Astrophysicist Sara Seager MacArthur Foundation The MacArthur Foundation fellows, also known as the recipients of the coveted "genius" award, have just been announced. They are all, without exception,...
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The Nobel Committee awarded its first prize of the season earlier today, announcing the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The award went to U.S. researchers James Rothman,...
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Check Out Dozens Of This Year's Best Infographics
Global Warning Derek (Dongwoo) Kim The annual Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards are a celebration of great data visualizations, and the organization has just released its prize long-list. And it...
View ArticleWhich City Has The Most Nobel Prize Winners? [Infographic]
Courtesy of Italian design agency Accurat, here's a simple, attractive look at data from the Nobel Prizes. It's in Italian, but like most well-done infographics, it doesn't require too much reading to...
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Click here to enter the gallery. At the afterparty for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a worldwide student technology competition, some of the smartest students in the world are…
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Last night were the Ig Nobel Prizes, the most important of Nobel Prize ceremonies. The ceremony honors the year's strangest--but also very good!--scientific research, in 10…
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The MacArthur Foundation fellows, also known as the recipients of the coveted "genius" award, have just been announced. They are all, without exception, fascinating people doing great work--and the...
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