Awards

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the recipient of the 2023 Stirling Prize, the most prestigious award in UK architecture. Mæ has won for its superb work designing the John Morden Centre, a day care center for elderly people.

The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ridiculous things our best and brightest have studied.

As any ornithologist will tell you, birds are wonderful, funny and expressive animals, so it's no surprise they also make great subjects for photo competitions. We present their weird and wonderful selves and the talented snappers behind the shots.

Celebrating the stranger side of science – focusing on those discoveries that can make you laugh and then make you think – the 2022 the Ig Nobel Prizes serve as a good-natured counterpoint to the stuffy and impenetrable Nobel Prizes.

An incredible image of a solar eclipse has won this year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Selected from more than 4,500 entries, the shot was awarded alongside other highlights, including a technically masterful mosaic of our Milky Way.

Do beards to protect our faces from punches? Does corruption in a given country correlate with how obese its politicians are? And why are scientists hanging rhinos off helicopters upside-down? These are a few of this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners.

For three decades, the Ig Nobel Awards have celebrated the lighter side of science by highlighting research achievements that “first make people laugh then make them think.” And there’s no shortage of amusing projects amid the 2020 crop.

Photography social network Agora’s latest photo contest tasked its community with capturing unique perspectives on the extraordinary worldwide lockdown. The results offer a diverse portrait of people from all over the world sharing a strange experience.

Austin-based game developer Frank Force has won the Best Illusion of the Year prize for his mind-bending yet simple animation of twisting rings that seem to be rotating in different directions simultaneously.

The British Ecological Society has unveiled the winners of its Capturing Ecology photography competition. The photographs, all either taken by ecologists or students, were taken all over the world, and capture both the beauty and frailty of the natural world.

This mind-expanding assortment of images affirm the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year as the world’s top astrophotography competition.

The 2019 Ig Nobels saw awards for those who turned their considerable intellects to everything from cubed wombat poo to thermal asymmetry of the human scrotum.