Every year, the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded to ten lucky winners. To qualify, you need to publish research in a peer-reviewed ...

The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts. The 34th First Annual Ig ...

Celebrating the weird, wacky and unusual side of science, the Ig Nobel Prize is the jokey younger brother of the highly prestigious Nobel Prize. Aiming to honor research that not only makes you laugh ...

But you can’t expect all research on human health to tackle such weighty issues, so let’s pause for a moment to recognize the winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes.

Traditionally, the prizes are awarded by genuine Nobel prize winners at an in-person ceremony held at Harvard University. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, however, the awards have been presented ...

2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners include ducks in a row, constipated scorpions, ice cream, and more. The 32nd Ig Nobel prize ceremony rewarded the most unusual and fun science the world has to offer.

Ig Nobel Prize winners Olcay Cem Bulut and Ralph Hohenberger have an important message. Credit: Improbable Research / Ig Nobel Prize The winners of 2021's Ig Nobel Prizes were announced on ...

He was a co-winner of the 2011 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize. In the past year, two separate groups studied who having the urge to pee can affect a person's decision-making.

The 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners didn’t disappoint. The weirdest include: Ahmed Shafik, a late Egyptian researcher who outfitted male rats in cotton, polyester, and wool pants, to test how the ...

The Ig Nobel Prize 2017 ceremony, held on September 14th, began with a flurry of paper airplanes launched toward the stage at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater. The ensuing hour of absurdity ...

The 2016 Ig Nobel Prize Winners were announced on Thursday at Harvard. They include a goat man, pants on rats, a new itch relief strategy, and more.