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Marc-Antoine Fardin, left, accepts his Ig Nobel Physics Prize from Nobel laureate Eric Maskin during ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge. (Photo: AP)

Life

Ig Nobel awardees answer real questions that are both funny and...

Awards are given out in ten categories ranging from economics and anatomy to medicine and cognition.

16 Sept 2017 11:42 AM IST

India

Why has the Science Congress been postponed this year?

The postponement of the Science Congress being hosted by Osmania University, Hyderabad this year, is allegedly due to...

15 Jan 2018 2:31 AM IST

The statistics vary depending on the discipline: the economics prize has been by far the most unattainable for women. The literature prize remains largely a male domain, while peace does somewhat better. (Photo: AFP)

World

Women in 21st century locked out of labs' and Nobel prizes

The peace prize is meanwhile the most favourable to women: 16 women laureates out of 104 people awarded.

8 Dec 2017 2:48 PM IST

$On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes. These came to be known as the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobels will, one part was dedicated to \the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses\. (Photo: AP)$ Life

Women still a minority at the Nobels

Analysis finds that women are scarce in Nobel Prize annals.

8 Dec 2017 12:37 PM IST