Pigeon-guided missiles, rats and pigs breathing through their anuses, dead trouts that can swim, and drunk worms are among the unusual scientific breakthroughs that make up the winners of this ...

From the effects of playing the didgeridoo on sleep to the best way to carry a coffee cup, the Ig Nobel Prize 2017 ceremony celebrated decidedly absurd research in a decidedly absurd manner. The Ig ...

Every year, the Journal of Improbable Research issues its prizes for the craziest (published) scientific research: the Ig Nobel Prize. The ceremony took place a couple nights ago, and if you want ...

Every year, the Journal of Improbable Research issues its prizes for the craziest (published) scientific research: the Ig Nobel Prize. The ceremony took place a couple nights ago, and if you want ...

The Ig Nobel Prize award ceremony was held online this year for the third consecutive year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Certain scientific advancements—such as the discovery of penicillin or the structure of DNA—are such game-changers that the scientists behind them are honored and immortalized with a Nobel Prize. And ...

He was at the Boston event where the award was presented to him before an excited crowd of 1200 people including 3 Nobel Laureates. "Through all of this excitement the audience kept on throwing ...

What started as spoofs of the Nobel Prizes more than two decades ago have become celebrated awards in their own right. This year’s Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony honored 10 teams for studies that “first make ...

A group of Japanese and American scientists has won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their butt. While their discovery ...

Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, Malala Yousafzai. Most of us have heard of the Nobel Prize and some of its recipients from across the years. But perhaps lesser known is the Ig Nobel Prize, an ...

Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...

Electrified chopsticks that change the taste of food extended the winning streak of Japanese researchers for a satiric Ig Nobel Prize to 17 straight years. Hiromi Nakamura, a project associate ...