The Ig Nobel Prizes are typically handed out just before the real Nobels are announced. For what it’s worth, there’ll be a gap of more than two weeks this time around: 2017’s Nobel laureates ...

Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes last week, each so extremely surprising that, in the event's long tradition, it makes people laugh, then think. The awards ...

You can see for yourself on Thursday (Sept. 18) at the 24th annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, an event that honors the hilarious (and sometimes ridiculous) side of scientific research and discovery.

Another Ig Nobel recipient is Saul Justin Newman, an interdisciplinary scientist at Oxford University. “I was joking to my family,” he recalls. “Every scientist dreams of the Nobel, ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor the wackier scientific achievements of this world. Highlights from this years ceremony include a man who lived as a goat and another as a badger. CNN — ...

The Ig Nobel ceremony is punctuated by comedic skits, silly librettos and squadrons of paper airplanes. Recipients are encouraged to come in costumes that honor the spirit of their research. The ...

The Nobel prizes are announced each October and later awarded at a formal ceremony in Stockholm. Also each October, at Harvard University, the somewhat lesser-known American version of the Nobels ...

The Ig Nobel Prize for biology was given to Susanne Schötz an associate professor at Lund University, Sweden who currently heads up the Meowsic department that studies melody in cat-human ...

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have ...