The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in ...

Miss Sweetie Poo confronts Charles Paxton at the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University. Paxton and three colleagues were awarded that year’s Ig Nobel Prize in biology for their ...

What It's Like to Win an Ig Nobel While Ig Nobel honorees aren't always sure they want the recognition, the prizes do bring attention to their research, according to reporting in Nature.

A team of Japanese scientists were honored with the Ig Nobel Prize in physiology on Thursday for their groundbreaking discovery that mammals, including humans, can absorb oxygen through their rectums.

The Ig Nobel Prize awarded in 2000 was for levitating a frog by magnetism. In 2010 he received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work with the electromagnetic properties of graphene.

Ig Nobel prize awards: Animals that can breathe through their backsides, truth about coin flips A raft of awards have been handed out for really bizarre research including how some animals can ...

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 ...

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 Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, zany science.

Lead researcher Frantisek Bartos told AFP the team was excited to become Ig Nobel laureates. “Although it’s a ‘parody’ prize, it is very nice to have your research highlighted,” he said.