As the Nobel Assembly dishes out science’s most prestigious award this week, starting yesterday with a three-way split for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the parody Ig Nobel committee ...

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.

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 ...

Actual Nobel laureates presented the prizes to the ten IG Nobel winners who all won a now obsolete Zimbabwean ten ...

Here I am accepting my award. Each of the winners was permitted ... Well here it is, one of the most magnificent and prestigious awards for science - the Ig Nobel Prize. Here I am with some ...

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 ...

Throwing paper airplanes onto the stage is an Ig Nobel Prize tradition ... year in a row that a Japanese national has claimed an award. Past Japanese winners include researchers exploring how ...

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 ...

The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ...

Every year, the Journal of Improbable Research issues its prizes for the craziest (published) scientific research: the Ig Nobel Prize. The ceremony took place a couple nights ago, and if you want ...