Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes that honors "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." ...

The Ig Nobel Prize 2017 ceremony, held on September 14th, began with a flurry of paper airplanes launched toward the stage at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater. The ensuing hour of absurdity ...

Scientists may feel underpaid and overworked, but they certainly aren’t underappreciated. By the latest count, there are more than 30,000 scientific prizes in the world, and the list continues ...

The Ig Nobel Prize’s 33rd ceremony took place virtually on Thursday night, with prizes awarded by “genuine, genuinely bemused” Nobel laureates over Zoom.

2023 Ig Nobel Prizes. ... Leonard Bickman, and Lawrence Berkowitz were recognized with the Psychology Prize for a study done in 1969, when they were at the City University of New York.

2015 Ig Nobel Prize winners include scientists who watched animals urinate and stung ... It didn’t hurt as much as Michael L. Smith, a neurobiology and behavior PhD candidate at Cornell ...

The data are in, the hypotheses have been tested and science has handed out prizes for finding answers to some of humanity's least-pressing questions: Welcome to the 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes, given ...

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel prizes. Chemistry/Geology Prize Citation: "Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks." ...

The Ig Nobel Prize’s 33rd ceremony took place virtually on Thursday night, with prizes awarded by “genuine, genuinely bemused” Nobel laureates over Zoom.