The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates discoveries and inventions that are unusual and imaginative. Think of it as the younger, more fun sibling of the revered Nobel Prize. Ig Nobel Prize winners are often ...

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.

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 Brits held their end up in Boston, US, on Thursday and walked away with another clutch of Ig Nobel Prizes. Professor Sir Michael Berry, from Bristol University, was honoured for his levitating ...

The winners of the tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel prizes for this year include the developers of robot zombie spiders, a smart toilet, research into rock licking and an analysis of nose hair numbers.

He is still a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, but now, according to the government of the Netherlands, he is no longer Dutch.

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.

This became a reality in 2000, when the British-Dutch physicist, Sir Andre Geim, won the Ig Nobel Prize for successfully levitating a live frog with magnets.

From scorpion poo to a crash dummy moose, the 32nd Ig Nobel prize ceremony rewarded the most unusual and fun science the world has to offer.

The winners of this year’s IG Nobel Prizes included scientists who studied cadavers’ nose hair, anchovy sex, dead spiders and rock-licking.

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.