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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

[Related: All-knowing toilets and taste-testing rocks amongst 2023 Ig Nobel winners.] The 2023 Nobel prize in medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, two of the scientists whose ...