The annual prize is given out to research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think.'
The annual ceremony celebrates some of the strangest science projects imaginable.
The alternative science awards are given to peculiar research projects which make people 'laugh... then think'.
For the second year running, this traditional celebration of science's most peculiar projects took place online.
Some of this year's most bizarre science projects were recognized at an online ceremony this week.
Nobel Prize winner Rainer Weiss and his colleagues have hinted at an upcoming 'exciting announcement'.
The winning trio were responsible for the first ever confirmed detection of gravitational waves.
Three British physicists have been awarded a Nobel Prize for their work on strange forms of matter.
It's time once again to recognize some of the most unique and peculiar research projects ever undertaken.
Stephen Hawking's theory of energy being emitted by a black hole may finally earn him a Nobel Prize.
Some of the most bizarre scientific pursuits were recognized this week with the coveted Ig Nobel Prize.
Every year some of the most weird and trivial research projects are recognized with a special prize.
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist has devised the concept of a mysterious structure called a time crystal.
Two Japanese researchers have invented a device that can stop even the most ardent chatterbox.
Nobel prize winner Dr. Brian Josephson is trying to increase awareness of E-cat cold fusion.
A number of unusual achievements have been honoured with this year's Ig Nobel prize including a designer who invented a ...