Install
Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK At the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony Tom Lam of Scientific American interviewed the 2025 Ig Nobel Physics Prize winners, and later tried to use his new knowledge in making the Italian pasta dish called cacio e pepe. This video documents that: ZME Science intervie
- 67articles · 365d
- 2+ day agolatest article
- Jan 6, 2026earliest in window
- 91%with images
- 142avg words
- Science & Nature 32
- Science & Technology 26
- Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 17
- Human Interest 15
- STEM 13
- Entertainment 11
- Beauty & Fitness 11
- Health & Wellness 11
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Ill-Fated Mice on display
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (157+ words) Improbable Research Mice and humans live in close proximity. This leads to conflict: we experience nuisances and actively combat these rodents. But is that always necessary? The Natural History Museum Rotterdam has collected mice that met their ends in the…...
Intravenous Jellybean
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (101+ words) Improbable Research An unusual kind of eye candy surprised two doctors, who wrote this medical report about it: “Intravenous Jellybean,” Mark J. Koelemay and Evert J. Kooi, European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, epub 2026. The authors, at Amsterdam UMC,…...
Insect Sex Organ Switcheroo — New Episode in NHK’s Ig Nobel Prize Winners TV Series
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (153+ words) Improbable Research “Insect Sex Intersections” is a new episode (the seventh episode) in the series “Laugh Then Think: Japan’s Offbeat Science” broadcast by the Japanese TV network NHK. You can watch it online. The series looks closely and lovingly at…...
Dead Duck Day celebration — Friday, June 5
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (76+ words) Improbable Research Join us in Rotterdam, on June 5, for the celebration! It will be not just a celebration of the dead duck incident, but also of Kees Moeliker’s official retirement from the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, where he was…...
Dead Duck Day celebration — Friday, June 5 – Improbable Research
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (76+ words) Dead Duck Day celebration — Friday, June 5 Improbable Research Join us in Rotterdam, on June 5, for the celebration! It will be not just a celebration of the dead duck incident, but also of Kees Moeliker’s official retirement from the Natural History…...
The Twelve-Gorilla Nettle Experiment
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (271+ words) Improbable Research Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: “An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,” Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep…...
Do Humans Prefer Beautiful Chickens?
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (105+ words) “Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans“, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. That study was published in the journal Human…...