Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition of the Ig Nobels ... the Ig Nobel website said. Australian researcher Saul Justin Newman read a poem at the ceremony, concluding that the real way ...

Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...

The Ig Nobel prizes are famed for their spotlighting of offbeat research. Nature investigates how some winners feel about their ‘honour’. Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991 ...

Most of what we know about humans living to very old age is based on faulty data, according to one researcher, including the science behind so-called blue zones famous for having a high proportion ...

Shechtman, of the Haifa Technion, became the 10th Israeli to win the world’s most prestigious prize at Saturday’s annual Nobel ceremony in Stockholm. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said ...

Oslo City Hall, the venue of the award ceremony, is also where former President Kim Dae Jung, Korea's first Nobel Prize winner in 2000, received the Nobel Peace Prize medal 24 years ago.