Behind the humor of awards for pigeon-guided missiles and magnetic frog levitation lies a sobering reality: organizers no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sept. 19 (UPI) --The Annals of Improbable Science announced this year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners, including researchers who ...

“We honor some remarkable individuals and groups. Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people laugh and then makes them think.” “We made an important discovery. Drunken ...

The awards, which celebrate the sillier side of science, have held raucous ceremonies that see the winners showered with ...

A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards ...

The awards are moving to Switzerland, because their founder believes he can no longer guarantee the laureates’ safety in the ...

Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the silly yet remarkable science. Reading time 2 minutes The 2025 Nobel Prizes ...

With science increasingly coming under attack, using humour as a way to get people interested in scientific research is more important than ever, the founder of the satirical Ig Nobel prizes said. But ...

If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. —Scott McKenzie A crown of daisies might have been a stylish choice for hippies gathering in San Francisco in 1967 for the ...

After 34 years, the Ig Nobel Prize, a unique satirical take on the Nobel Prize, is leaving its longtime home in the Boston ...

This is not satire, but we wish it was The Ig Nobel Prize, which satirizes its more noble namesake, is moving its award ...

The tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel awards will be held in Europe for the first time this year because the United States has become "unsafe" for international prize-winners to visit, the organizers have ...