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 ...

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 ...

Salvador Luria was an Italian American microbiologist who shared his lab with Dulbecco in Bloomington after fleeing World War ...

Christian Chan, an associate professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, became a co-winner of the Ig Nobel Prize in Education for his team’s studies that showed a correlation ...

If you want to do your best, most creative work, moving to a new place—or working from several places—can accelerate the ...

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 ...

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 ...