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 ...

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 — ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

Ten Ig Nobel awards were given out in early October by the editors of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research. This year's award-winning research included scientific ...

For years, the Ig Nobel Awards have been famous for celebrating the most offbeat and ludicrous forms of scientific discovery.And last night, I was lucky enough to attend the 2015 Ig Nobel ceremony ...

What is the Ig Nobel prize? Founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Marc Abrahams said the prize honors achievements that “make you laugh, then make you think.” The achievements that have been ...