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 ...

Winners are awarded $250,000 ... won for work on how Earth’s early conditions paved the way for nature’s present biodiversity ...

A similar major readjustment of attitude could result from the work of 2024’s Ig Nobel botany prize winners Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita. They found evidence that some real plants imitate ...

Other Ig Nobel Prize winners this year included researchers who explored the probability of a flipped coin landing on the same side, the use of chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms and ...

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to two American scientists for their work on microRNA.

The awards, most of which date to 1901, are intended to go to those who “ have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind ,” ...

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

A trio of U.S. academics won the prize for economic after finding that authoritarian governments inhibit growth and ...

The three economists “have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity,” the Nobel ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements kicked off on October 7, honoring groundbreaking contributions in fields such as medicine, ...

The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated ...