Despite the idea’s popularity, new Ig Nobel award-winning research has kind of killed it (pun most certainly intended). It seems past research into extreme old-age demographics has been riddled ...

This year marks the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and the first time it was held in person since the pandemic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Ig Nobels were founded ...

Their cheeky discovery has led them to be awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. The annual awards look at the funny side of science and have been taking place for more than thirty years.

A team of Japanese and American researchers was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physiology on Sept. 12 for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anuses. This marks the 18th ...

There are Nobel Prizes, and then there are Ig Nobel prizes. Few actively pursue the latter, annual awards given by the Annals of Improbable Research to “honor achievements that make people laugh, then ...

starting yesterday with a three-way split for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the parody Ig Nobel committee bestowed honors on the bizarre, trivial, and humorous in research. Among this ...

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 ...

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 annual ceremony that awards prizes to those that have ...

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 ...

A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal, only the second such medal to be sold at auction, has fetched 1.1 million dollars in a sale to a private Asian collector, auctioneers Stack's Bowers said on Friday.