Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...
The Ig Nobel Prizes are back and, as always, they prove that the intersection of humor and science can sometimes yield the ...
On this week’s episode of the podcast, Roach tells the host Gilbert Cruz how she comes up with her ideas and what keeps drawing her back to the bizarre, hilarious bits of trivia that the human body ...
"There is no more efficient investment of taxpayer resources than basic science and research and technology. These are the discoveries that drive not only the expansion of our economy, but the ...
The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...
Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...
Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their ...
Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...
Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the latest visitor to the Solar System may be turning green.
The relationship between music, science and maths are deeply entwined. We could all benefit from learning more about it.