The annual Ig Nobel prizes, ... Former winners of the real Nobels hand out the Ig Nobel awards at a ceremony held at Harvard University in Massachusetts.

The ceremony included a mini-opera inspired by 1999 Ig Nobel Prize winners George and Charlotte Blonsky, who invented a spinning doctor’s table that is meant to aid women in child birth by using ...

The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded each year to honor strange scientific discoveries. Here's a look at this year's winners.

The breakthrough garnered an Ig Nobel Prize for Acoustics on Thursday. The Ig Noble Prizes are an annual honor for accomplishments in science and humanities that are intended to make you laugh ...

He is still a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, but now, according to the government of the Netherlands, he is no longer Dutch. He is, he said in a show of considerable understatement, “extremely ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Foundation on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision ...

The Ig Nobel prize is an award handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine at Harvard University for silly sounding scientific discoveries that often have surprisingly practical ...