Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who ...

Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...

Of course, we are not talking about the Nobel Prize, but the Ig Nobel, an annual celebration of the most “improbable” research from around the world – even the serious world of scientific ...

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 ...

The event was held on September 12, a month before the real Nobel Prizes. Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition of the Ig Nobels. Voice 1: The physiology prize went to Japanese and US ...

Queen Elizabeth, known for her humility, was approached about being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Commonwealth, but wasn’t interested in the recognition.

Davies is a wide-ranging thinker, but there is a common thread in his work: he is a connoisseur of fraud and failure. (He has already given readers of this column the unforgettable story of the time ...

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

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While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an ...

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed and others fail. The three ...