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

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

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

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From safer airbags to stronger athletes, UVA data science professor Stephen Baek is using artificial intelligence to study ...

Dutch courage may really help when it comes to speaking a foreign language, according to this year’s Ig Nobel Prize winner.

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

The tongue-in-cheek scientific awards also recognise research into lizard's preferred pizza and garlicky breastmilk.

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

New simulations suggest globular clusters form in multiple ways and point to a mysterious new type of star system that may ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...