Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the pantheon of greatness alongside the likes of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and ...
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 ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – An experiment that proved people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive and another that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home ...
A lighthearted twist on the better-known Nobel prizes, the ceremony is dedicated to research that makes you “laugh, and then ...
Imagine this: doctors saving a suffocating patient not by inserting a breathing tube, but by funneling an oxygen-rich liquid through the rectum. It sounds like something straight out of an Ig Nobel ...
A number of quirky scientific studies have recently been honored with the Ig Nobel Prize. This year, as usual, brought a collection of seemingly bizarre ...
October 2025‘The one about Ig Nobel winners, biological re-entry and diabetes being shown to double the risk of sepsis’Alan Booth, Senior Editor at Labmate-Online, presents the latest ...