When Coffs Harbour Public School agriculture students received a life-size fibreglass cow to decorate, little did they know ...

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...

A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead ...

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ...

In a stark demonstration of how award-winning breakthroughs can come from the most unlikely directions, researchers have won ...

Biology Prize: Fordyce Ely and William E Petersen, for exploding a paper bag next to a cat that's standing on the back of a ...

Lisa Evie Rullis and Eva Layton hard at work on their prize-winning entry. “The Picasso Cow project allowed the students to learn so much about the dairy industry in a manner that included the ...

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize ...

The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that ...

The U-boat skipper stared through his periscope through the murky September waters of the North Atlantic. He smiled at what ...