At the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Tom Lam 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:
Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather on stage to ask each other questions about their work, in the Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event on Thursday, November 6, 2025. It’s part of the Falling Walls Science Summit, Berlin, Germany, on the main stage. Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. […]
If you like pasta with tomato sauce (e.g. Neapolitan style) you may have asked yourself, ‘Which factors affect the suitability of boiled pasta with tomato sauce for eating?’ If so, a new paper from the Japanese Society of Food Science and Technology could be of interest. “Physical properties of the pasta boiled for the shortest […]
Bad things can happen when soy sauce goes to waste. Bad things can happen, too, when the residue of making soy sauce goes to waste. This study explains and explores: “Causes of accidents by soy sauce squeezing residue and fish meal,” Naoharu Murasawa, Hiroshi Koseki, Yusaku Iwata, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, January 2013, […]