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 ...

The 2023 Ig Nobel Prize winners have been announced. Improbable Research. The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." ...

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel prizes. Chemistry/Geology Prize. Citation: "Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks." ...

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 ...

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for science that "makes people laugh, then think" ...

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 ...

Every year in Norway, Nobel Prizes are awarded to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to human knowledge. Also every year, but at a far less formal ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., "Ig ...

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 ...

This year’s Ig Nobel winners are here ... 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 ...

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.