Last week, Nobel Laureates handed out ten Ig Nobel Prizes during the 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No, the “Ig” is not a typo.

A team of researchers have won a coveted Ig Nobel Prize for tossing coins hundreds of thousands of times and proving that coin flips are not 50/50 after all. In sports, coin tosses are often used ...

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 concept of the light-hearted Ig Nobel ...

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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 ...

In 2007 sword swallower Dan Meyer and radiologist Brian Witcombe were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize, a satirical award celebrating unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Read the ...

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 ...

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 ...

An unexpected WW2 experiment by behaviourist B F Skinner proved that pigeons could be used for missile guidance.