Davies is a wide-ranging thinker, but there is a common thread in his work: he is a connoisseur of fraud and failure. (He has already given readers of this column the unforgettable story of the time ...

Costochondritis — a benign condition that causes inflammation of the cartilage connecting your ribs to your breastbone. Also ...

Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...

Physicist Dr Anxo Biasi of the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías believes he has found something almost as elusive ...

National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner coined the term “blue zones” while researching different hot spots for longevity ...

Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

Japan-U.S. team wins Ig Nobel prize for anal breathing study ...

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Queen Elizabeth, known for her humility, was approached about being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Commonwealth, but wasn’t interested in the recognition.

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...