The Bioengineer web site (and many other news orgs) brings news about the project that won the 2024 Ig Nobel Physiology Prize. That prize was awarded to Ryo Okabe, Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa, Yosuke Yoneyama, Yuhei Yokoyama, Satona Tanaka, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Wendy L. Thompson, Gokul Kannan, Eiji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Date, and Takanori Takebe, for discovering that […]
The October 2025 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research) has just gone out. One of its minor highlights is the winning entry in the competition to create a limerick to explain this study: “Tolerance of Amphibians in Slovakian People: […]
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 […]
“Fluid Motion: Motion-Sick Drivers Excreted Fluids” is a special review article in the special MOTION issue (volume. 31, no. 5) of the magazine, Annals of Improbable Research. Download the article, free, you like. And if you really like, then subscribe to the magazine!