On Monday, the Nobel Prize awards committee, in an official Press Release, announced the winners for the prize in Physiology or Medicine. American scientist Bruce A. Beutler, has been declared the winner of the 2011 Prize, along with Frenchman Jules A. Hoffmann, for their discoveries of receptor proteins that can activate innate immunity.
In addition to Beutler and Hoffman, the committee also recognized Ralph M. Steinman, for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunit...
Aditi Mathur
Oct 03, 2011
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded jointly to three researchers for their work related to the immune system.
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 03, 2011
The Nobel Prizes for 2011 will open on Monday with the announcement in Stockholm of the Medicine Prize, to be followed over the course of a week by the awards for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics and Peace.
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 03, 2011
Around the world scientists, writers and negotiators of peace are hoping they will receive a $1.5 million phone call from Scandinavia next week saying they are Nobel Prize Winners.
Laura Matthews
Oct 01, 2011
The 2011 Ig Nobel prize for Biology has gone to Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. Research was titled Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females (Coleoptera).
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 01, 2011
In the Ig Nobel Awards, Harvard University has taken away some of the cutting-edge anticipation leading up to next week's Noble Prizes by honoring scientists, not for the quality of their research, but instead for the amount their research makes people laugh.
Ceylan Yeginsu
Sep 30, 2011
The 2011 Ig Nobel prize for medicine has been won by Mirjam Tuk from the Netherlands and her colleagues who found that people have a tendency to make fewer impulsive decisions when they have the urge to urinate.
Bhaskar Prasad
Sep 30, 2011
Mirjam Tuk from the Netherlands and her colleagues who found that people have a tendency to make fewer impulsive decisions when they have the urge to urinate have won the the 2011 Ig Nobel prize for medicine. Their research demonstrated that people make better decisions about some kinds of things but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.
Bhaskar Prasad
Sep 30, 2011
Winners’ research shows what happens when humans litter.
Cristina Merrill
Sep 29, 2011
Scientists to receive Ig Nobel Prize for improbable research.
Cristina Merrill
Sep 29, 2011
Physicists worldwide were baffled and shocked when a group of European scientists announced last week that they had successfully recorded subatomic particles called neutrinos traveling at speeds higher than light.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Sep 28, 2011
Several physicists, including some who have won the Nobel Prize, have expressed doubts about the veracity of the new finding that subatomic particles called neutrinos can travel faster than light.
Jijo Jacob
Sep 27, 2011
On the Google home page, a pair of oranges find a place of pride in commemoration of the 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Györgyi, the Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian physiologist.
Bhaskar Prasad
Sep 16, 2011
Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on Tuesday, condemning the group's official stand on global warming. In 2007, APS adopted an official statement on global warming, which said that the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate.
Amrutha Gayathri
Sep 15, 2011
While Paul Krugman stirred up controversy with his Sept. 11 blog, presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R, Texas, followed suit, writing a blogpost on Sunday titled, Ask the right questions and face the truth.
Elisha Maldonado
Sep 13, 2011
Cats genetically modified to glow in the dark may give vital clues to the treatment of the AIDS virus, U.S. scientists have found.
IBT Staff Reporter
Sep 13, 2011
Cats genetically modified to glow in the dark can give vital clues to the treatment of AIDS, scientists have found.
Bhaskar Prasad
Sep 13, 2011
Global warming and climate change are phenomena that broke the bonds of scientific circles to emerge as a matter of debate between believers and skeptics. Countless studies validating and denying global warming have seen the light of the day, providing fodder for more, often somewhat bitter debates. Within the past month, Nobel Prize winner and leading climate change alarmist Al Gore has called those who deny global warming akin to racists, and pseudo-...
Amrutha Gayathri
Sep 01, 2011
Corey Stoll, though not a household name, was a major player in Midnight in Paris, a movie that remained in picture houses all summer long and made more money than any other movie from the director Woody Allen.
IBT Staff Reporter
Aug 27, 2011
Micronations or libertarian utopias aren't conceptually new. They claim to be independent nations or states but which are not recognized by world governments or major international organizations. Many of these nations envisage a utopian society free of authoritarian control of any kind. These are non-existent except on paper, on the Internet, or in the minds of their creators.
Amrutha Gayathri
Aug 21, 2011
Peter Thiel, PayPal cofounder and an initial investor in Facebook, and a gay libertarian, is investing in what he calls his most ambitious project: Creation of artificial libertarian islands in international waters, free from international laws, regulations or moral codes.
Amrutha Gayathri
Aug 20, 2011
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has announced a possible first-ever cosmic detection of flat carbon flakes called graphene in two small galaxies outside the solar system. Upon confirmation, researchers believe that it might hold vital clues on how life developed on Earth.
Monami Thakur
Aug 17, 2011
