At the award ceremony for his 2000 Ig Nobel, Geim told everyone that levitating a frog led to lots of requests, including one from the leader of a small religious group in England, "who offered us ...

But this episode is not about the Nobel Prize, it’s about its younger, much more fun sibling: the Ig Nobel Prize. The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates discoveries and inventions that are unusual and ...

The winners will join previous Ig Nobel Award recipients like the 2000 winners of the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics who sealed the win by levitating a frog with magnets, and the 2006 Ig Nobel Peace ...

Ten years after winning the parodic Ig Nobel prize for levitating a frog with magnets, Russian scientist Andre Geim has snagged the real thing. On Tuesday, the prestigious physics Nobel went to ...

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 ...

While the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony might seem different this year, its celebration of strange and silly science remains. ... who, 20 years ago, was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize because he and another ...

The mascot for the annual prize is called The Stinker, a version of Rodin's The Thinker, toppled over on its backside.. Nobel Prize for economics laureates Eric Maskin (2007) and Oliver Hart (2016 ...

BostonIntelligence - and the lack of it - was the theme of this year's Ig Nobel prize ceremony, which celebrated its tenth anniversary at Harvard University last week.

Some of the Ig Nobel Prize winners from previous years like to come back to our stage. We always encourage them to do that, to take a bow and to help honor the new winners. We have two of them with us ...