Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly ...

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A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

Matthew King loves it when the wheels start turning for a kid – both the metaphoric mental wheels and the very literal one ...

The Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 went to a study on perfect cacio e pepe. Scientists from ISTA Austria and Italian ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

Valdosta State University recently announced the launch of a new degree program — the Bachelor of Science in Data Science.

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...