Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Apollo moon landing conspiracy theories were early hints of the dangerous anti-vax, antiscience beliefs backed by politicians today
38 votes -
The Lindy Effect
3 votes -
Executive summary - Elsevier’s acquisition of Interfolio: risks and responses
5 votes -
Will it slip or will it grip: Scientists ask, “what is snail mucus?”
12 votes -
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
39 votes -
Beneath the Earth, ancient ocean floor likely surrounds the core
15 votes -
Lucid dreamers transmit musical melodies from dreams to reality in real-time in groundbreaking study
22 votes -
Human ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago
51 votes -
Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
19 votes -
Why are adverts so loud?
17 votes -
Here's why automaticity is real actually
17 votes -
New amphibian family tree a leap forward in understanding frogs, shows they evolved tens of millions of years later than previously thought
10 votes -
The early history of counting
6 votes -
Knot theory: How the most useless branch of math could save your life
15 votes -
Searching for dark matter with the world's most sensitive radio
8 votes -
Scientists discovered why Germany’s wild boar are radioactive
26 votes -
The rediscovery of circadian rhythms
29 votes -
The golf ball paradox
11 votes -
I’m so sorry for psychology’s loss, whatever it is
40 votes -
A University of British Columbia study gave fifty homeless people $7,500 each and debunks stereotypes about homeless people’s spending habits
34 votes -
How far can you jump from a swing?
15 votes -
Who is likely to believe in conspiracy theories?
35 votes -
Live roundworm found in Australian woman's brain in world-first discovery
14 votes -
The veery thrush will time its migrations months in advance to avoid dangerous storms in the Atlantic Ocean. How are these birds so attuned to the climate?
14 votes -
What does any of this have to do with physics?
41 votes -
Ig Nobel Prize winner Higashiyama Atsuki and the “Between-Legs Effect” mystery
40 votes -
How a brain implant and AI gave a woman with paralysis her voice back
15 votes -
Scientists release the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
19 votes -
The hunt for natural hydrogen reserves
13 votes -
Mapping arctic foxes’ spectacular solo journeys
8 votes -
July 2023 was the hottest month on record
29 votes -
‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth.
80 votes -
Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than two weeks
18 votes -
Ancient fires drove large mammals extinct, study suggests
15 votes -
National Ignition Facility fusion societal energy hype
19 votes -
Turning milk into clothing
8 votes -
White-nose syndrome in bats was detected in Texas in February 2020. Scientists are only now understanding the population loss.
9 votes -
Chromium is showing immense promise as a cheap, plentiful alternative to metals used in smartphone screens and solar cells
11 votes -
Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd
8 votes -
The superconductor sensation has fizzled - and that's fine
40 votes -
US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time
80 votes -
Muon g-2 doubles down with latest measurement, explores uncharted territory in search of new physics
21 votes -
Are there politics in mathematics?
Curious if there are movements within the governance or research pertaining to the field that act to promote or suppress certain ideas? Was watching the “Infinity explained in 5 different levels”...
Curious if there are movements within the governance or research pertaining to the field that act to promote or suppress certain ideas? Was watching the “Infinity explained in 5 different levels” and thought… maybe there are trends for or against interpretations and/or abstractions that get a rise in people…
33 votes -
There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit
28 votes -
Too much ecological fallacy with health studies
13 votes -
Wobbling muon experiment could reveal a fifth force of nature — if the results hold up
20 votes -
Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects
9 votes -
Researchers engineer bacteria that can detect tumor DNA (in mice)
6 votes -
Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s FLIP vessel decommissioned after sixty years
10 votes