When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

Esteemed Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Fumihiko Maki passed away at his Tokyo home last Thursday at the age of 95. Celebrated for his modernist approach, Maki was responsible for ...

Born in Sonsón, Colombia, in 1938, the late Jairo Alvarez was the second-born of 11 children. He and his siblings helped their Papacito, Mario, and Mamacita, Adela, tend to corn and potato crops ...

Israeli-American Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman, who died last year at 90, decided to end his life through assisted suicide in Switzerland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

By the end of 1905, he had produced four more papers, cementing his name in the annals of history. On the 146th birth anniversary of Einstein, here’s a look at some fascinating facts about the Nobel ...

It was Christmas of 1988 when Jainendra K. Jain found himself musing over an idea that would reshape the landscape of theoretical physics. Holed up in the quiet solitude of his study, the young Indian ...

The now concluded AGM-183 ARRW program received an Aviation Week Laureate award for achieving the first end-to-end tests of a hypersonic glide vehicle with a high lift-to-drag design. The Lockheed ...

Learn more and enter a poem. Shahaddah Jack, a 20-year-old bilingual spoken word poet and activist was appointed by City Council as Toronto’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate on October 9. The Youth Poet ...

Learn more and enter a poem. An advocate for poetry, language and the arts, Toronto’s Poet Laureate attends events across the city to promote and attract people to the literary world. The position, ...