Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the ...

Researchers Vikash Kumar and Sarthak Mittal argued that understanding sensory discomfort in everyday environments could lead ...

Ice, a common material, holds mysteries about its electrical behavior, with flexoelectricity potentially explaining ...

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to a light-hearted Dutch study which revealed that alcohol helps people speak a foreign language more fluently. In aviation, scientists found that drinking alcohol makes ...

Held less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced, Thursday’s 35th annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony was ...

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The Ig Nobel Prizes are here. The winners gathered in Boston to accept the awards for some bizarre experiments, ranging from ...

Commercial air travel is already the safest way to move across the planet. However, in the extremely unlikely event that an ...

Offbeat scientific studies—including one that involved eating Teflon—were celebrated Thursday at the annual Ig Nobel awards.