Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

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

The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging ...

Secondary school pupils in Wales will continue to be able to take three separate GCSEs in chemistry, physics and biology ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the ...

Matthew King loves it when the wheels start turning for a kid – both the metaphoric mental wheels and the very literal one ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges inflation theory. How exactly did the universe start, and how did these processes determine its formation and ...

Three new majors were announced the first week of September in an open house on BYU campus. The new majors include data ...