The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners were introduced at the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday evening, September 3, 2026.
Newman’s Happy Index of ‘Morbid’ Surprising Bits
Saul Newman has written a book about his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research. The book is called Morbid — Debunking Modern Longevity Science. It’s published by MIT Press. (The photo shows Newman with MIT Press’s director, Amy Brand, and the book.) Newman is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London and the University of Oxford. […]
Slime Molds and a double Prize winner and a big, great science adventure
“ ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence — Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it”. So says the headline of a report by Samanth Subramanian, […]
A Book of Odd Showers
Odd Showers, a book published in 1870 in London, is explicitly [the book itself says] “intended chiefly for young persons.” Non-young persons are not explicitly prohibited from reading the book.
First He Won an Ig Nobel Prize, Then He Won a Trumpler Award
Jesse Han is becoming good at winning unusual awards. In 2017 he traveled to Harvard University, to receive the 2017 Ig Nobel Fluid Dynamics Prize, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee. [His research on that was published in study called […]