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Ideas and Discoveries or i.D. is a magazine covering science, with a heavy interest in social science. The magazine was first published on 10 December 2010. [ 1 ] It is an American magazine available in newsstands, published on a bi-monthly basis. [ 2 ]
The contest, later titled the Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight, motivated 26 teams from seven nations to invest more than $100 million in pursuit of the $10 million purse. On October 4, 2004, the Ansari XPRIZE was won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures , who successfully completed the contest in their spacecraft SpaceShipOne .
The Longitude Prize is an inducement prize contest offered by Challenge Works, a social enterprise which was historically part of Nesta, a British lottery funded charity, in the spirit of the 18th-century Longitude rewards. [1]
Inducement prizes have a long history as a policy tool for promoting innovation and solving various technical and societal challenges. These prizes offer a compensation reward, which can be in the form of monetary or non-monetary benefits, and aim to engage diverse groups of actors to develop solutions with low barriers to entry. [4]
The 3M Young Scientist Challenge is a youth science and engineering competition administered by Discovery Education and 3M for middle school students in the United States, similar to the European Union Contest for Young Scientists. Students apply by creating a 1-2 minute video detailing their idea for a new invention intended to solve an ...
In 2003, these prizes were calculated to have a combined value of US$2,326,500. [11] As of December 2023, none of the prizes have been awarded, as no proof of paranormal has been provided. In 2015, James Randi ceased to accept public applications directly from people claiming to have paranormal powers. [12]
The Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week kicks off on Sunday, July 7 and it can't get here fast enough! This video is just amazingly great and I am so excited to see new host John Cena this year!
The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a scientific award, funded by internet entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company 23andMe.