It's this time again for the second most important awards in science or at least the most entertaining ones. Kissing, peeing, chicken dinosaurs and pain measuring - all the best the science has to offer. The winners of this year IgNoble Awards are:CHEMISTRY PRIZE: Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston, and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, ( Read more... )

It's Nobel season again and now that we know all the important ones (sorry, I don't feel the same excitement for Literature, Peace or Economy prizes). So here they are:

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded for the discovery cells that make up a positioning system in the brain. They are responsible for our ability to create a ( Read more... )

I have been so busy recently I didn't realise that it is time for IgNobels already. They were awarded today and I must say that I am in awe. I wouldn't even think about trying to investigate most of these but I now want someone to test if Usain Bolt could run on water on the Moon. I'm also wondering what you feel when large chunk of your life is ( Read more... )

The summer has officially ended by I still managed to get that one last swim today before it gets to cold. But end of summer is also the time for the Ig Nobels. The 22nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was conducted on Thursday and you can go and watch it all (including real Nobel laureates hoping pointlessly to join the exclusive club of ( Read more... )

The Ig Nobels for 2011 were awarded yesterday. You can watch the ceremony on youtube - it's way more entertaining the the other one. The full list of winners is here on the Improbable Research site.Among fascinating research awarded this year are the one for Physics that went to people who studied why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer ( Read more... )

The IgNobel Awards winners were presented with the awards on Thursday:

Medicine: Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest of the University of Amsterdam for discovering that asthma symptoms can be alleviated by a rollercoaster ride. I have to try this next year.

Physics: Lianne Parkin and associates at the University of Otago in New Zealand for proving ( Read more... )

Yesterday (well it was yesterday in Poland) the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Winners were announced at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. The winners are:

Veterinary medicine: Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, UK, for showing that cows with names give more milk than cows that are nameless.

Peace: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars ( Read more... )

The funny part was last week when Ig Nobels were awarded to bizzare research - I'm particularly impressed by the number of research on spermicide properties of Cola. And I always felt somebody should make vegetarians feel guilty for eating those plants.

And this week is Nobel Prize week. Not finished yet but all the important ones are already known ( Read more... )