World Science Festival Blog

The World Science Festival has now officially started. Click on our list of events to see where tickets are still available — many events are already sold out. Here are some visual impressions from the opening and from the World Science Summit that marked the beginning of the Festival.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s opening address stressed the importance of science for politics. You can read more about it on Andrew Revkin’s blog at nytimes.com (more…)

In a simulcast linking New York with Oslo, the winners of the inaugural Kavli Prizes have been announced at the World Science Summit. The three $1,000,000 Kavli Prizes, a partnership between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation, and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, recognize exceptional achievements in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience.

The winners of the astrophysics prize are Maarten Schmidt (Caltech) and (more…)

It has just been announced that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is going to open the World Science Festival on Wednesday, May 28, with a key-note address at the Festival’s opening event, the World Science Summit. At the (invitation-only) Summit, more than 125 leaders from science, business, government, media, and academia will discuss the many ways in which science acts as a key player in global affairs.