CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 6 -- The cat in the hat may be fine but felines strolling across the computer keyboard is something warranting imaginative steps to prevent. That's why Chris Niswander of ...

Held less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced, Thursday’s 32nd annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony was for the third year in a row a prerecorded affair webcast on the Annals of ...

It was the quirky aspects of science that researchers celebrated at this year’s Ig Nobel award ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Actual Nobel laureates ...

The 33rd annual Ig Nobel Prizes in improbable research that make people “LAUGH, then THINK,” according to its website, were revealed this week. The awards are produced by the Annals of ...

Thus began the 34th Ig Nobel prize ceremony. The annual award show, organized by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, is a parody of the prestigious Nobel Prizes and a pun on the word "ignoble.

Moose crashes. Research into all of these burning topics and more was honored yesterday at the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. Now in its 32nd year, the good-natured parody of the Nobel prize ...

For the third consecutive year, the 2022 Ig Nobel prize winners were also announced in a pre-recorded webcast on the Annals of Improbable Research magazine’s website. The Ig Nobel prizes ...

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, the Ig Nobel awards give a much-needed nod to the goofy side of science. This year’s winners included everything from measuring nose hairs in cadavers, eating with electrified ...

A team of researchers give a light-hearted demonstration of their work which found that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus, while accepting the 2024 Ig Nobel prize in physiology.