As the leader of the Japanese team that won the engineering prize of this year's Ig Nobel Prize, Gen Matsuzaki hasn't quite come to grips with the honor, which is a parody of the Nobel prizes.

Despite the idea’s popularity, new Ig Nobel award-winning research has kind of killed it (pun most certainly intended). It seems past research into extreme old-age demographics has been riddled ...

A team of Japanese and American researchers was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physiology on Sept. 12 for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anuses. This marks the 18th ...

Meet the low-cost standard for hypoxic and physioxic environment cell culture that enabled HIF-1α Nobel Prize-winning research. Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair. Rosemarie ...

University of Amsterdam researchers claimed the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying polymers by racing inebriated and sober worms through a chromatography maze. Laura is an Assistant Editor ...

This year marks the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and the first time it was held in person since the pandemic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Ig Nobels were founded ...

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 ...

The Ig Nobel Prize recognizes scientific research that “makes people laugh and then makes them think.” Japanese researchers have consistently been among its recipients since 2007, including a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The 25th Ig Nobel Awards recognized some of the year's most bizarre, trivial or unusual discoveries in the fields of biology, economics, and mathematics.

Mabuchi Kiyoshi won the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics Charlie Chaplin films the "first slip" on a banana peel in film history. Mabuchi measures the friction of banana skins, apple and orange ...