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From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...

The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten ...

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 ...

The satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research produced the ... Petersen posthumously won the Biology Prize for, as the ...

A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead ...

The winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for Physiology have found that all mammals can breathe through their backsides.

The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, ...

Ig Nobel prize ceremony, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, celebrated eccentric scientific studies, including a pigeon-guided missile project and the dynamics of a dead fish's ...

Awards were handed out Thursday night for scientific research that might be a bit off the beaten track. The goal is to make people laugh -- and think.