Thus, it appears cats have an awareness that their bodies are a finite height, and assess short but wide holes to see if they ...

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...

The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten ...

The Ig Nobel Prize, known for celebrating quirky and humorous scientific achievements, recently honored a groundbreaking ...

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the Ig Nobel Prize ...

From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recognized for their work in absurd scientific research ...

From stuffing pigeons into missiles to discovering that animals can breathe through their anuses, the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ...

The only person to have won a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize is Sir Andre Geim. The Ig Nobel Prize awarded in 2000 was for ...

Ig Nobel Prizes are intended to celebrate the wild and wacky world of science, medicine and technology that is “so surprising that they make people laugh, then think.” ...

Based on work reported in 1939, Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen posthumously won the Biology Prize for, as the Ig Nobel ...

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ...

Biology Prize: Fordyce Ely and William E Petersen, for exploding a paper bag next to a cat that's standing on the back of a ...