Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the silly yet remarkable science. Reading time 2 minutes The 2025 Nobel Prizes ...

Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering whether painting cows with stripes protected them from flies are among the ...

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the pantheon of greatness alongside the likes of Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and ...

Fabrizio Olmeda, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), and colleagues have now been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the perfect cacio e ...

The lesson appears to be clear: you should stop throwing your pasta water down the sink, stat. Instead, “think a step ahead,” ...

Cacio e pepe is an iconic pasta dish that is also frustratingly difficult to make. A group of Italian scientists studied what makes it fall apart to better understand how to make it more reliably.