The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --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 First Annual Ig ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --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 ...

Actual Nobel laureates presented the prizes to the ten IG Nobel winners who all won a now obsolete Zimbabwean ten trillion-dollar bill, available for $22 on eBay, and a “transparent box ...

Traditionally, the prizes are awarded by genuine Nobel prize winners at an in-person ceremony held at Harvard University. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, however, the awards have been presented ...

The 34th annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thursday. Among the winners was a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide ...

Every year in Norway, Nobel Prizes are awarded to scientists who have made outstanding contributions to human knowledge. Also every year, but at a far less formal ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., "Ig ...

The medicine Ig Nobel went to European researchers who demonstrated that fake medicine which causes painful side effects can work better than fake medicine that does not. Dead fish swimming . The ...

Actual Nobel laureates handed the winners their prizes.“While some politicians were trying to make sensible things sound crazy, scientists discovered some crazy-sounding things that make a lot ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --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 First Annual Ig ...

Professor James Liao displays a stuffed fish while accepting a prize for physics for demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout during a performance at the Ig Nobel Prize ...