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Butt-breathing mammals and dead fish swimming: The 2024 Ig Nobel Prize

New Atlas - Mon 16 Sep 24

From 350,757 coin flips to prove probability to assessing the swimming abilities of dead trout, the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize have been recognized for their work in absurd scientific ...

Backside breathing and pigeon bombers studies win Ig Nobel prizes

Phys.org - Sat 14 Sep 24

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won ...

Backside Breathing And Pigeon Bombers Studies Win Ig Nobel Prizes, International Business Times - Fri 13 Sep 24

Ig Nobel Prize 2024 winners: Pigeon-guided missiles and butt-breathing mammals

Science Focus - Fri 13 Sep 24

The Nobel Prize is quite understandably considered the greatest accomplishment many can achieve. It has been granted to some of science’s greatest minds including Marie Curie, Alexander Fleming ...

Studies on pigeon-guided missiles, swimming abilities of dead fish among Ig Nobles winners

Phys.org - Fri 13 Sep 24

A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners Thursday of this year's Ig Nobels, the ...

Pigeon-guided missiles, animals breathing with anuses, drunk worms: Ig Nobels celebrate science’s wackiest discoveries

The Independent - Thu 12 Sep 24

The Ig Nobels were founded by a science humor magazine in 1991 to honor the imaginative and unusual in science

Pigeon-guided bombs, dead trout and hair whorls triumph at spoof Nobel prizes

The Independent - Thu 12 Sep 24

Research on lactating cows and anus-breathing mammals also picked up awards.

WWII bird-guided missile research code-named 'Project Pigeon' wins quirky award

ABC Science - Thu 12 Sep 24

The annual Ig Nobel awards celebrates a slew of bizarre research that makes you laugh, and then makes you think. These are some of this year's winners.

Anus-Breathing Animals and Pigeon-Guided Missiles: Ig Nobel Prizes Reward Unusual but Valuable Science

Smithsonian Magazine - Wed 18 Sep 24

The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten disciplines

Hidden Patterns Show Nobel Prize Science Trends

Scientific American - Tue 17 Sep 24

Time lags between discoveries and awards show how the Nobel Prizes reward science

Breathing through the anus, fake side effects, and mimicking artificial plants: It’s Ig Nobel season

ZME Science - Mon 16 Sep 24

The prizes this year were something else.

From tipsy worms to pigeon missiles: the quirky triumphs of the 2024 Ig Nobel awards

Chemistry World - Fri 13 Sep 24

Chemistry prize rewards work that used worms as analogues of large polymers

The weirdest studies of the year are revealed in the spoof 'Ig Nobel' awards - from research on training pigeons to pilot bombs to an experiment on the direction our hair swirls

Daily Mail - Fri 13 Sep 24

The annual Ig Nobel awards recognise scientific discoveries that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'.

Drunk Worms Wiggle Their Way to an Ig Nobel Win

The Scientist - Thu 12 Sep 24

University of Amsterdam researchers claimed the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying polymers by racing inebriated and sober worms through a chromatography maze.

Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes

Ars Technica - Thu 12 Sep 24

Enlarge / The Ig Nobel Prizes honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Curiosity is the driving ...