Anus-Breathing Animals and Pigeon-Guided Missiles: Ig Nobel Prizes Reward Unusual but Valuable Science
The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines
2024 Ig Nobel Prizes for Silly Science Include Pigeons in Missiles, Hair Whorls, and Dead Fish That Swim
The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, zany science.
A Long Life, Thanks to Where You Live? Not Likely, Says Ig Nobel Winner.
An Australian researcher found that many areas that supposedly produce lots of centenarians also produce shoddy record-keeping.
Butt-breathing mammals and dead fish swimming: The 2024 Ig Nobel Prize
From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recognized for their work in absurd scientific research.
Studies on pigeon-guided missiles, swimming abilities of dead fish among Ig Nobels winners in Cambridge
A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles was among the winners Thursday of this year’s Ig Nobels at MIT.
Ig Nobel Prize goes to scientists who discovered butt-breathing mammals
The Ig Nobel Prize, unlike Nobel Prizes, honors "surprising" discoveries that "make people laugh."
Ig Nobel Prize winners include research into butt breathing, coin flips
The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts.
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Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year
From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...
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2024 Ig Nobel Prizes
The satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research produced the ... Petersen posthumously won the Biology Prize for, as ...
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Japanese share 2024 Ig Nobel for finding many mammals can breathe through anus
The prizes were launched by a US scientific magazine in 1991 as a parody of the Nobel Prizes. The organizers of the ...
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Twisteddoodles takes on the Ig Nobel prizes
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...
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Kamikaze pigeons, drunk worms, anus-breathing mammals awarded Ig Nobel Prizes
This year’s Ig Nobel ceremony was held on September 12 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the awards presented by actual Nobel Prize laureates. The theme was “ ...
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The Weatherglass Novella Prize, the Ig Nobel Prize and the London Jazz Festival
Author Kate Kruimink joins Georgina Godwin to talk about her award-winning novella ‘Astraea’ and China Moses discusses her ...