Please join us, if you will (and don’t join us, if you won’t) for these upcoming events in Berlin, Germany: FRIDAY, November 6, 2026: Falling Walls Science Summit — Open to attendees of Falling Walls. SUNDAY, November 8, 2026, 16:30-18:00: Berlin Science Week — Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium. […]
Spaghetti and pencils are not the same thing, nor are they made in quite the same way. Still, there are similarities. These two videos show the manufacturing process of the two beloved things: NOTE: Thanks to Helenmary Sheridan for pointing out the deficiencies in a video that was included in the original version of this […]
Some detectives specialize. Detectives whose specialty is detecting kissing might benefit from the method described in this study: “Detecting Kissing Scenes in a Database of Hollywood Films,” Amir Ziai, ArXiv 1906.01843, 2019. The author reports: “We experimented with a variety of 2D and 3D convolutional architectures such as ResNet, DesnseNet, and VGGish and developed a […]
Cowbirds fascinate cowbird watchers and listeners in many ways. This 2012 study focuses on some of those ways in some of those cowbirds: “Effects of Habitat and Urbanization on the Active Space of Brown-Headed Cowbird Song,” Megan D. Gall, Kelly L. Ronald, Eric S. Bestrom, and Jeffrey R. Lucas, The Journal of the Acoustical Society […]
The day after receiving their Ig Nobel Prizes in a gala ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland on September 3, 2026, many of the new winners gathered to ask each other questions about their work, and to answer questions from an audience. This video documents that event.