TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony went on sale 12 May, 2026. The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, in early September. NOTE: Learn why the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA). The logo, below, by […]
Upasana Sarraju’s new book called Unruly: The Ig Nobel Prizes and The Science That Refuses to Behave dives into, swims and surfs through a universe (our universe, in fact) full of unexpected science. Published by India Penguin [ISBN 9780143470403], the book’s official debut date is February 28, 2026. Here’s how Sarraju describes the book: After […]
“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: “Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,” Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis […]
Join us this Thursday afternoon in Leiden, the Netherlands. The show features Marc Abrahams and these Ig Nobel Prize winners: Mirjam Tuk (Medicine Prize, 2011): decision making with a full and empty bladder Antoine Deblais (Chemistry Prize, 2024): using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms Ida Sabelis (Medicine Prize, 2000): sex in an MRI […]
This year’s Dead Duck Day celebration was spectacular in multiple ways. Maybe most spectacular, after the traditional commemoration of the incident that led to ornithologist Kees Moeliker’s eye-opening and Ig Nobel Prize-winning scientific paper “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard“, was the arrival of Rotterdam’s deputy mayor bearing a message and a […]
This Friday, June 5, 2026 will be Dead Duck Day — and it will be the second most spectacular of all the Dead Duck Days. The most spectacular, of course, was the day the two ducks figured in the now-famous collision with, and hookup next to, the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. That […]