The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize ...

Takebe's team claimed one of the 10 Ig Nobel Prizes awarded this year. The awards were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of the US scientific magazine Annals of Improbable Research ...

and this past May they released a spoon that increases the perceived saltiness of food. 06:26 When the spoon is turned on and placed in the mouth, in transmits a weak electrical current through ...

these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year’s Ig Nobels, the quirky alternative to the Nobel Prizes. Voice 2: The annual awards for achievements that make people ...

The Ig Nobel Prize is a satirical annual award handed out scientific research that “makes people laugh, and then think”. The award first started in 1991 and is intended to celebrate the ...

This year's Ig Nobel Prize winners have been announced and honored at a ceremony at Harvard. The Nobel Prize parody celebrated the funniest and strangest researches of the year.

Their cheeky discovery has led them to be awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. The annual awards look at the funny side of science and have been taking place for more than thirty years.

Having taken part in the first Ig Nobel celebration, which Marc Abrahams staged five years ago, and two others since, I can reassure George Scherr [Letters, The Scientist, Jan. 8, 1996, page 12], if ...

The award was announced on Sept. 15. It marked the 16th consecutive year for a Japanese to win an Ig Nobel Prize. Matsuzaki said that his study was not intended to make people laugh, which is the ...

But perhaps lesser known is the Ig Nobel Prize, an annual ceremony that awards prizes to those that have some rather unusual achievements in academia. Since its establishment in 1991, their aim ...