The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand ... and a lot of silly hats. The 2023 award winners are now world-class experts that have advanced mankind's knowledge on big questions.

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 ...

Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements ... In the weeks following the ceremony, the winners will also give free public talks ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --The winners of the tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel prizes for this year include the developers of robot zombie spiders, a smart toilet, research into rock licking and an analysis of nose ...

A similar major readjustment of attitude could result from the work of 2024's Ig Nobel botany prize winners Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita. They found evidence that some real plants imitate the ...

September is here, and with it the year’s new crop of 10 Ig Nobel prizes, each for a piece of research chosen with the same simple criterion – that it makes people laugh, then think.

The scientists who researched these questions are among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes – an accolade that has no affiliation to the Nobel Prizes – which aim to “celebrate the ...

Actual Nobel laureates presented the prizes to the ten IG Nobel winners who all won a now obsolete Zimbabwean ten trillion-dollar bill, available for $22 on eBay, and a “transparent box ...

Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements ... the evening's theme of knowledge. The winners will also give free public talks ...

That's the lesson of John Perry, winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature, whose advice on "structured procrastination" was published in the Chronicle for Higher Education in the 1990s.

Research into all of these burning topics and more was honored yesterday at the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize ... Per tradition, actual Nobel laureates handed out the prizes. The winners received a ...

As has been an Ig Nobel tradition, real Nobel laureates handed out the prizes, using a bit of video trickery: The Nobel laureates handed the prize off screen, while the winners reached out and ...