News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Mattias Krantz figured out, by experiment and by seeking advice, how to teach an octopus how to play with a piano. That took about half a year. Think of it, if you like, as a case of 88 keys and eight hands, kinda sorta. This video shows dramatic highlights from the mutual adventure. (Thanks to […]
Please join us on Friday, November 28, 2025, for this year’s Science Friday day-after-Thanksgiving Ig Nobel Prize highlights broadcast. To many radio listeners, the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony — each year honoring ten things that make people LAUGH then THINK — is an annual radio event, a stream of surprising stuff and people that pours […]
The Disappearing Spoon podcast looked into what it calls “The Dignity of the Ig Nobels — Winning an Ig Nobel Prize is largely considered a joke, but its benefits are no laughing matter”. The podcast, with host Sam Kean, is a project of the Science History Institute. The introduction to this episode says: The Ig […]
Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather on stage to ask each other questions about their work, in the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event on Thursday, November 6, 2025. It’s part of the Falling Walls Science Summit, Berlin, Germany, on the main stage. Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. […]