原文作者：Catriona Clarke悬浮小蛙、恋尸的鸭子、出租车司机的大脑——“搞笑诺贝尔奖”（Ig Nobel prizes）将聚光灯投向了一些另类作品。本文中，获奖者们谈了谈他们对这些未必想要的“荣誉”作何感想。搞笑诺奖的创始人Marc ...

Ten unexpected things were honoured at the 34th Annual Ig Nobel prizes last week, each so extremely surprising that, in the ...

It was a serious piece of research but its slightly comedic aspects have just won the team an Ig Nobel Prize. Ten such awards were handed out on Thursday by the science humour magazine Annals of ...

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Friday they would vote to keep the federal government operating beyond a midnight deadline and avert a damaging shutdown that could ...

An innovation to improve safety on the roads for Swedish drivers has won one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes. The moose crash-test dummy was developed by IT engineer Magnus Gens to see how cars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their cheeky discovery has led them to be awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. The annual awards look at the funny side of science and have been taking place for more than thirty years.

The Ig Nobel prizes are famed for their spotlighting of offbeat research. Nature investigates how some winners feel about their ‘honour’. Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991 ...

Electrified chopsticks that change the taste of food extended the winning streak of Japanese researchers for a satiric Ig Nobel Prize to 17 straight years. Hiromi Nakamura, a project associate ...