At the 33rd Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University, winners were announced for their unusual and sometimes eccentric research in various fields of knowledge. This year's winners include works related to such topics as the reasons why scientists lick stones, sensations,…

The 2022 Ig Nobel Prize winners have been announced. It is awarded for discoveries that "make you laugh and then think." This year, we offer to think about constipation in scorpions and how it affects their success in their personal lives, as well as on ...

Men need a mustache and a beard because they give an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, the level of corruption in a country can be determined by how well-fed the ministers are there, and cats can not only meow and purr, but also communicate with people by ...

Harvard University hosted the 30th ceremony of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize, a humorous scientific award for authors of research that, as its charter says, “makes you first smile and then think.” This year one of the laureates…

The 29th Shnobel Prize Ceremony was held on September 12 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at Harvard University. Its laureates, as usual, were 10 scientific papers with funny names and non-obvious practical applications. Writes about this BBC. Received such an award for studies that, as written ...

At Harvard University in the United States, the Ignobel Prize (Shnobel Prize) awards were presented for research of dubious scientific value. A team of six researchers won a Peace Prize for their research on how playing the musical sound instrument didgerido can help treat snoring, and how cats can be both hard and ...

At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 2016 Shnobel Prize ceremony was held - a joking analogue of the Nobel Prize. Biologist Ahmed Shafik received the Snobel Prize for Breeding, who found that polyester briefs are a good contraceptive. Economics Award ...