Moore's draft from October 2007 involves a number of fascinating story elements — from a Cold War subplot to a definitive ...

At a gala ceremony last September, the 2013 Ig Nobel prizes for "improbable" research were awarded. Among the winners were researchers who found that some people would be able to run across the ...

It was the quirky aspects of science that researchers celebrated at this year’s Ig Nobel award ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Actual Nobel laureates gave out ...

Marc Abrahams writes about things that are surprising. He created the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, the magazine Annals of Improbable Research, books, videos, podcasts, theatrical events and the librettos ...