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

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 ...

Pluto is a bit of a loner. The dwarf planet is no longer considered a regular planet; it does not orbit on the same plane as ...

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

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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.

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

This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.

Catarina made landfall near Santa Catarina state on March 28 with estimated 100-mph winds, damaging or destroying tens of ...