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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
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