A study on splashback from men's urinals won the Ig Nobel physics prize in Zurich, one of the annual alternative awards for unusual scientific work. The prize-winning team included researchers from the United States, Canada, China and Saudi Arabia. The resear…
The 2026 Ig Nobel prizes honoured projects including urinals designed to prevent splashing, underwear buried to test soil quality and experiments involving researchers stepping on venomous snakes. The 36th edition of the annual awards, organised by the scienc…
BepiColombo's European and Japanese probes separated from their transfer module on Thursday, completing a key step in the spacecraft's high-risk arrival phase…
SpaceX and Blue Origin are among four US companies that have cancelled their attendance at a Paris space summit next week, France's higher education, research…
Researchers in northeastern Thailand have identified two new dinosaur species this year, highlighting what scientists say is one of Southeast Asia's most impor…