Did Dangun, the son of Ungnyeo who became human by surviving for three weeks on nothing but garlic and mugwort, suckle his mother’s milk for a longer time? A study that could provide a hint to this ...

United States president, Donald Trump, has made a series of false and misleading claims during his UN General Assembly on Tuesday (23 September).

Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights ...

Have you ever wondered what type of pizza lizards prefers, or if alcohol consumption inhibits bats' ability to fly?

Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favorite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another ...

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prizes.

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to a light-hearted Dutch study which revealed that alcohol helps people speak a foreign language more fluently. In aviation, scientists found that drinking alcohol makes ...

Vikash Kumar, assistant professor of design at Shiv Nadar University, and student researcher Sarthak Mittal have won the ...

Celebrating quirky research, the Ig Nobel Prizes highlight oddball studies that entertain before enlightening on real ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.