Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements ... In the weeks following the ceremony, the winners will also give free public talks ...

The Nobel Foundation offers prizes in only three disciplines, but other awards have been created to honor scientists in ...

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 ...

Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The awards that dare to ask whether you ...

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 ...

We caught up with one of this year’s winners, Saul Justin Newman, a senior research fellow at the University College London ...

The Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to American David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for separate work in ...

The ceremony started with Kees Moliker, winner of 2003 Ig Nobel for biology, giving out safety instructions. His prize was for a study that documented the existence of homosexual necrophilia in ...

Make your paper airplane, grab a comfortable seat and get ready to laugh, and then think, while we introduce the 34 th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize winners. Looking to address the challenges of ...