News about the Ig Nobel Prizes — honoring achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.
This Sunday, September 20, 2026, the Miraikan science museum in Tokyo will host, for the fourth consecutive year, a special Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. Four Ig Nobel Prize winners and a Nobel laureate will ask each other about their work… and answer questions from the audience. Paper airplanes will fill the air. Kiyoshi Furusawa will […]
Nature magazine published a nice editorial about the Ig Nobel Prizes, on September 8, 2026. You might enjoy reading it. Also, here’s a quick video presentation about some of the new winners, by Nature journalist Maren Hunsberger: And More… You might also enjoy dipping into some of the other press accounts of this year’s Ig […]
Saul Newman has written a book about his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research. The book is called Morbid — Debunking Modern Longevity Science. It’s published by MIT Press. (The photo shows Newman with MIT Press’s director, Amy Brand, and the book.) Newman is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London and the University of Oxford. […]
“ ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence — Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it”. So says the headline of a report by Samanth Subramanian, […]