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Cows painted to look like zebras among 2025's Ig Nobel prize winners
VIDEO Sep 19, 2025The annual prize is awarded to some of the weirdest and wackiest science projects around the world.
Generational ship 'Chrysalis' would take 400 years to reach nearest star
Aug 16, 2025A prize-winning, hypothetical spacecraft could be the key to enabling humans to colonize distant worlds.
Drunk worms and pigeon missiles head up Ig Nobel Prize winners
Sep 13, 2024The annual prize is given out to research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think.'
Ancient scrolls buried by Vesuvius eruption deciphered using AI
Feb 6, 2024Three researchers have been awarded a $700,000 prize for producing the first readable text from the previously unreadable scrolls.
Fossil licking and zombie spiders among 2023's Ig Nobel Prize winners
VIDEO Sep 15, 2023The annual ceremony celebrates some of the strangest science projects imaginable.
Scientists compete to win $100,000 consciousness research prize
May 11, 2023More than 100 projects have been put forward in a bid to unlock the secrets of consciousness.
Constipated scorpions among subjects of this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners
VIDEO Sep 19, 2022The alternative science awards are given to peculiar research projects which make people 'laugh... then think'.
Bigelow Institute unveils $1M life after death essay prize winners
Nov 8, 2021Robert Bigelow had launched the contest in an effort to find the best evidence of life after death.
2021 Ig Nobel Prize celebrates weird science
Sep 18, 2021For the second year running, this traditional celebration of science's most peculiar projects took place online.
$50k offered for proof of America's Nessie
May 21, 2021A businessman in the US is offering a large cash prize in exchange for proof of the lake monster known as Pepie.
'Living skyscraper' wins architecture prize
May 11, 2021A design concept for a skyscraper made from genetically modified trees has won this year's eVolo contest.
Bigelow offers $1M for proof of life after death
Jan 22, 2021Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow is offering a $1M prize pot for the most compelling evidence of an afterlife.
Weird science projects gain Ig Nobel Prize
Sep 19, 2020Some of this year's most bizarre science projects were recognized at an online ceremony this week.
Man wins $1M lottery prize twice in one day
Apr 29, 2020One fortunate Colorado resident couldn't believe his luck when he managed to scoop two consecutive jackpots.
Man discovers a spider eating his pet goldfish
Jan 8, 2020A tour guide in South Africa recently posted up a photograph showing the fate of his prized goldfish Cleo.
City offers $1.1M for proof that it doesn't exist
Aug 23, 2019A group in Bielefeld, Germany is offering a hefty cash prize to anyone who can prove that the city doesn't exist.
$3,000 prize offered for remote viewing research
May 23, 2019The prize will be awarded to the best 'research proposal investigating some aspect of remote viewing.'
Theme park to hold 30-hour 'Coffin Challenge'
Sep 27, 2018The Six Flags theme park in St. Louis is offering a $300 prize in exchange for spending 30 hours inside a coffin.
ESA wants you to name its new Mars rover
Jul 21, 2018The European Space Agency is offering a prize to the person who manages to come up with the winning name.
Russian scientists call out TV clairvoyants
Nov 26, 2017Researchers in Russia are offering a large cash prize to anyone who can demonstrate psychic powers.
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