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From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...

This year's Ig Nobel ceremony was held at MIT on Thursday evening, with the awards presented by actual Nobel Prize laureates.

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The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, ...

From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recognized for their work in absurd scientific research ...

Among those collecting their prizes was a Japanese research team led by Ryo Okabe and Takanori Takebe who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses. They say in their paper that ...

Actual Nobel laureates handed the winners their prizes.“While some politicians were trying to make sensible things sound crazy, scientists discovered some crazy-sounding things that make a lot ...

Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition, held a month before the real Nobel prizes. The physiology prize went to Japanese and US researchers for discovering that many mammals can breathe ...

These and other unusual research endeavors were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2024 recipients of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes. Yes, it's that time of year again, when the ...