Atlant Bieri made this video about his experience on the day he and his team were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. The 2026 Ig Nobel Soil Science Prize was awarded to Franz Bender, Marcel van der Heijden, Atlant Bieri, and Pia Viviani, for burying 1000 identical pairs of underpants in more than 25 countries, and […]
Congratulations to 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winner Mariska Kret, for winning a new prize. Leiden University, her home institution, announces: Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research 05 February 2024 — Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities […]
The University of Michigan proudly announces the good news about Ig Nobel Prize winners David Dunning [pictured here] and Justin Kruger: Announcement of the New (2023) Prize Dave Dunning Wins the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Scientific Impact Award Dr. David Dunning has won the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Scientific Impact Award. According […]
The 2022 Heinz Oberhummer award, for “outstanding science communication”, was awarded to the Ig Nobel Prize on November 24, at the Stadtsaal in Vienna, Austria. The ceremony was webcast. Here’s recorded video of it: