News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
Scott Carver writes: “I am passing along the latest iteration in the wombat cubed poo story – essentially moving from our previous work on how they make it, now to what they use it for. Enjoy.” That new iteration, a research study, is: “Deriving the functional significance of olfaction in a solitary non‐territorial herbivore: The […]
Here’s video of the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event that happened at the MIT Museum on September 20, 2025, two days after the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded. Ig Nobel Prize winners asked each other questions about their work, and answered questions from the audience. The event consisted of two sessions: Session 1: Marc Abrahams […]
Two days after the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, the 632nm blog interviewed several of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners, as you will see and hear here in the resulting video: The interviews happened at the MIT Museum, immediately before the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. In the Face-to-Face event, the new winners asked each […]
UPDATE, October 21: Vikash Kumar was planning to travel to London for this, but health issues intervened. During the Royal Institution event, we will pay tribute to Vikash and his co-winner, Sarthak Mittal (in their honor, if you are coming to the Royal Institution event please wear shoes). We hope Vikash and Sarthak will be […]