This year marks the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and the first time it was held in person since the pandemic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Ig Nobels were founded ...

the Ig Nobel Prize. The ceremony took place a couple nights ago, and if you want to see what you missed, we’ve embedded the (long) video below. (Trigger warning: Actual Nobel laureates being goofy.) ...

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The 30th First Annual (not 31st Annual) Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, held entirely online for ... Lisa Winter became social media editor for The Scientist in 2017. In addition to her duties on social ...

has its own answer to the creme de la creme of the scientific world. Every fall since 1991, the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony has blown a figurative raspberry at those members of the profession who take ...

The Ig Nobel Prize award ceremony was held online this year for the third consecutive year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What did the researchers who won the anatomy prize discover ... and deaths, the Ig Nobel website said. Australian researcher Saul Justin Newman read a poem at the ceremony, concluding that the ...

The Ig Nobel Prize in Education went to a team of international ... recognized as something that makes people laugh. The award ceremony was held online for the fourth consecutive year due to ...

But perhaps lesser known is the Ig Nobel Prize, an annual ceremony that awards prizes to those that have some rather unusual achievements in academia. Since its establishment in 1991, their aim ...

Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...

A group of Japanese and American scientists has won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their butt. While their discovery ...