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Breathing through the anus, fake side effects, and mimicking artificial plants: It's Ig Nobel season

The prizes this year were something else.

Upside-down rhinos and other curious scientific findings from the Ig Nobel Awards

First they make you laugh and then they make you think.

Frozen poop knives and alligators on gas: the Ig Nobel awards

The Ig Nobel prizes make you laugh, and then make you think.

Hot left testicles, cubed wombat poop, and the dirtiest money in the world among Ig Nobel winners

It's that time of the year when we celebrate research that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."

Cats are both solid and liquid -- and other surprising tidbits of science from the Ig Nobel Awards

Cats really *are* liquid... but only sometimes.

Turning bullets into diamonds, finding brain activity in dead salmon, finding out why hair turns green, and others: the Ig Nobel prize

Every scientist dreams of getting his hands on a Nobel prize – it’s the highlight of one’s career, unless you’re Obama. But winning a Nobel Prize spoof… is that really something you want to get? Apparently… why not? The Ig Nobel prize, the whimsical award for research which is useful, but also really cooky is […]

In case of emergency, just take off your bra !

No, the people in the photo are not sniffing the bra or… something. This is Emergency Bra, or Ebra, for short may very well be the thing that saves your life; literally. How does it work ? Well, it converts into a respiratory mask. Good thing about it is that since it has two cups, […]