Having taken part in the first Ig Nobel celebration, which Marc Abrahams staged five years ago, and two others since, I can reassure George Scherr [Letters, The Scientist, Jan. 8, 1996, page 12], if ...

Liao won the physics prize for demonstrating and explaining ... Actual Nobel laureates presented the prizes to the ten IG ...

This year's Ig Nobel Prize winners have been announced and honored at a ceremony at Harvard. The Nobel Prize parody celebrated the funniest and strangest researches of the year.

The event was held on September 12, a month before the real Nobel Prizes. Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition of the Ig Nobels. Voice 1: The physiology prize went to Japanese and US ...

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 ...

Philip Dybvig is the latest IU alum to get a Nobel Prize — receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2022. He graduated from IU with a degree in mathematics and physics in 1976. Some ...

Abrahams says winners aren't determined by "whether ... The 37-year-old is optimistic his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research will also have practical applications. First published in 2021 during ...

famous for his study proving that toasts tends to land butter-side down-a concept that earned him the Ig Nobel Prize in 1996. To defy the odds, he worked alongside chef Nuño García, who has won ...

George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences released a report examining Nobel Prize winners in late 2024, and one of the findings has garnered interest, in light of the ...

The head of an advocacy organisation created by women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize has expressed support for the proposed Occupied Territories Bill, following a trip to the occupied West ...

The brand tries to answer a question: can we follow the 5-second rule to eat food after it falls on the floor? To develop this, Enterogermina partnered with physicist Robert Matthews, famous for ...