The Ig Nobel Prize 2017 ceremony, held on September 14th, began with a flurry of paper airplanes launched toward the stage at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater. The ensuing hour of absurdity ...

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." ...

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 ...

Celebrating the weird, wacky and unusual side of science, the Ig Nobel Prize is the jokey younger brother of the highly prestigious Nobel Prize. Aiming to honor research that not only makes you laugh ...

The 2016 Ig Nobel Prize winners didn’t disappoint. The weirdest include: Ahmed Shafik, a late Egyptian researcher who outfitted male rats in cotton, polyester, and wool pants, to test how the ...

But you can’t expect all research on human health to tackle such weighty issues, so let’s pause for a moment to recognize the winners of the 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes.

The winners of 2021's Ig Nobel Prizes were announced on Thursday night, honouring scientists for their work in weird, funny, but ultimately intriguing science.

2016 Ig Nobel Prizes 14 photos. BOSTON A Swede who wrote a trilogy about collecting bugs, ... Another animal-inspired prize winner was Thomas Thwaites of the U.K.

The winners were announced last night at a live webcast ceremony held at Harvard University. For those unfamiliar with the Ig Nobel Prizes, it’s an annual celebration of silly science.

He was a co-winner of the 2011 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize. In the past year, two separate groups studied who having the urge to pee can affect a person's decision-making.

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 ...

The 2016 Ig Nobel Prize Winners were announced on Thursday at Harvard. They include a goat man, pants on rats, a new itch relief strategy, and more.