The Ig Nobel Prize in Education went to a team of international ... recognized as something that makes people laugh. The award ceremony was held online for the fourth consecutive year due to ...

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To date, the Breakthrough Prize remains the world’s largest science award—the prize awards six prizes of $3 million, roughly three times the amount of the Nobel Prize purse size—and strives ...

Glenn Close, Katy Perry, Lizzo and Rob Lowe were among the A-listers who saluted scientists at the 11th annual Breakthrough ...

The Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, also known as the “Oscars of Science,” was founded by Silicon Valley titans Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Anne ...

In October 1970, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded ... He declined to attend the prize-giving ceremony himself, for fear of not being allowed to return to the Soviet Union.

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