Please join us, if you will (and don’t join us, if you won’t) for these upcoming events in Berlin, Germany: FRIDAY, November 6, 2026: Falling Walls Science Summit SUNDAY, November 8, 2026: Berlin Science Week — Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to the Science Week […]
Cowbirds fascinate cow-bird watchers-and-listeners for in many ways. This 2012 study focuses on some of those ways in some of those cowbirds: “Effects of Habitat and Urbanization on the Active Space of Brown-Headed Cowbird Song,” Megan D. Gall, Kelly L. Ronald, Eric S. Bestrom, and Jeffrey R. Lucas, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of […]
The day after receiving their Ig Nobel Prizes in a gala ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland on September 3, 2026, many of the new winners gathered to ask each other questions about their work, and to answer questions from an audience. This video documents that event.
Atlant Bieri made this video about his experience on the day he and his team were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. The 2026 Ig Nobel Soil Science Prize was awarded to Franz Bender, Marcel van der Heijden, Atlant Bieri, and Pia Viviani, for burying 1000 identical pairs of underpants in more than 25 countries, and […]