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The annual Austin conference has announced the winners of its sustainable-startup competitions, and Popular Science was there.

Science fiction authors Ann Leckie and Mary Robinette Kowal, who contributed to our Dispatches From The Future special issue, have just won Hugo Awards.

The annual Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards are a celebration of great data visualizations, and the organization has just released … Continued

The three U.S.-based researchers sharing this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology Or Medicine were announced this morning. Happy Nobel Prize week.

A paleobotanist studying plant evolution, a statistician developing new treatment regimens, and other amazing people

The Ig Nobel Prizes are in! Here are the winners of the strangest science awards of the year.

A quick blood type test, an app that syncs music playback on your phone and more

You've been slacking since 1901, Paris.

A parasite-fighting neurobiologist, a pediatric neurosurgeon, two Brilliant 10 winners, and other scientists awarded a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship.

Do you have an invention you KNOW will someday change the world? Have you been toiling for years in your … Continued