Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes last week, each so extremely surprising that, in the ...

Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...

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 ...

A group of Japanese and American scientists has won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their butt. While their discovery ...

The event was held on September 12, a month before the real Nobel Prizes. Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition of the Ig Nobels. Voice 1: The physiology prize went to Japanese and US ...

Feedback's nifty, thrifty summary recalls a speech at an Ig Nobel prize ceremony by Yoshiro Nakamatsu. (Nakamatsu, also known ...

The Ig Nobel prizes are famed for their spotlighting of offbeat research. Nature investigates how some winners feel about their ‘honour’. Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991 ...

Sadly for the legend, the blades failed every test, but the study was colorful enough to snag Eren an Ig Nobel Prize the following year. And it's just one of the many fascinating projects ...

More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes have released an open letter calling for a dramatic increase in ...