Some food is flavorful even in its name. Such is the case with the plant called Monstera deliciosa. Its tastiness is no longer the mystery that some people feared it to be. This study explores what makes that taste tasty: “Volatile flavor constituents of Monstera deliciosa,” Terry L. Peppard, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, […]
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 […]
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: […]