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" ...

Meteorologist Syukuro Manabe shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work modeling gases’ movement through a column of ...

The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, ...

Viewers can tune in for the usual 24/7 lectures, as well as the premiere of a "non-opera" featuring various songs about water ...

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ...

From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recognized for their work in absurd scientific research ...

An Australian researcher found that many areas that supposedly produce lots of centenarians also produce shoddy ...

There is no one in the world who is doing more than the Ukrainian president to send a message to the dictators of the planet: ...

Paul Krugman: I’m Paul Krugman. I’m an opinion writer for The New York Times, also a professor at the City University of New ...

Awards were handed out Thursday night for scientific research that might be a bit off the beaten track. The goal is to make people laugh -- and think.

Professor Ben Feringa of the University of Groningen, along with two colleagues, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ...

Make your paper airplane, grab a comfortable seat and get ready to laugh, and then think, while we introduce the 34th First ...