Two Indian engineers have won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize, a quirky science prize, for creating shoe-racks fitted with UV lamps ...

For those planning a visit, The Skeleton Key Odditorium is centrally located in downtown Portland, making it easily accessible as part of a day exploring the city. For more information about hours, ...

In Texas, biologists have documented an extraordinary bird — the natural hybrid offspring of a green jay and a blue jay. Once ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

Crucially, Alien: Earth has kept the key pillars that helped make "Alien" and "Aliens" all-time classics — the eggs, the ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Astronomers are using radio pulses from space to find missing baryonic matter and learn about supermassive black holes, ...

Everyone is a little weird. Believe it or not, there are several perks to being weird, according to science. Studies show ...

Wouldn’t it be fun if the research that won the Ig Nobel prize for weird science were all that it seems? The latest award – ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

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 ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...