The Ig Nobel awards celebrated quirky scientific research in Zurich, honoring ten projects that blended humor with insight. Categories included economics, chemistry and technology, highlighting how ...

Ten research teams were honored at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. A study of cockroach milk was among the winners.

Studies on cockroach milk and nose-blowing crowned winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize - Research into evolutionary history of kissing and how soil organisms break down buried underwear receive top ...

Achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think. That’s the motto of the Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual competition that—parodying the Nobel Prizes—recognizes some of the world’s most ...

Japan extended its streak of Ig Nobel Prize wins to 20 consecutive years on Sept. 3, earning awards in medicine for research on the most effective way to blow one’s nose and in chemistry for exploring ...

ZURICH: Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the US for the first time due to travel concerns. Researchers who studied milk from ...

Research into cockroach milk, the science of nose-blowing and the evolutionary history of kissing were among the studies honoured at this year's Ig Nobel Prizes, the satirical awards that celebrate ...

Researchers who studied the milk of cockroaches and the science of blowing one's nose were among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prize, the satirical award given for scientific research deemed so ...