The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, celebrating its 20th anniversary, has announced Salman Rushdie as the 2025 recipient of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award.

Trump is obsessed with the Peace Prize. He mentions it at rallies, he hounds his allies, he discusses it with enemies, he ...

Created in 1991, the prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes spotlight unconventional studies from around the world that combine scientific rigor with humor.

Today in History for Oct. 7: In 1663, Jean Baptiste Le Gardeur de Repentigny was chosen as the first mayor of Quebec. In 1737, iron was first smelted in Canada, at St-Maurice, Que. In 1758, the first ...

I N YEARS GONE by, the wait for the announcement of winners of the Nobel prizes was a period of fun but largely uninformed ...

United States president, Donald Trump, has made a series of false and misleading claims during his UN General Assembly on Tuesday (23 September).

Have you ever wondered what type of pizza lizards prefers, or if alcohol consumption inhibits bats' ability to fly?

Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favorite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.

This year’s honorees brought us pizza-eating lizards, tipsy bats, nail growth, and more that all celebrate the joy and fun in ...