At the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Tom Lum of Scientific American interviewed the 2025 Ig Nobel Physics Prize winners, and later tried to use his new knowledge in making the Italian pasta dish called cacio e pepe. This video documents that:
If you are a subscriber to our magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), you may be chuckling or grimacing (or both) at the email messages of the past few days. Do not be dismayed, please! Those emails are a side effect of something good, of a weird problem being solved. The PROBLEM: The company we have […]
ZME Science interviewed Ig Nobel Prize winner Kees Moeliker, about how Moeliker discovered the existence of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. This ornithological interview happened at the Falling Walls Science Summit, in Berlin, on November 7, 2025.
The January 2026 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. The issue contains info about research on the topic of “This and That.” It includes the winning entry in the competition to create a limerick […]