Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.

Recently, the Alia CX 300, an innovative new aircraft running entirely on electricity, marked the first time an electric ...

Created in 1991, the prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes spotlight unconventional studies from around the world that combine ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Ice, a common material, holds mysteries about its electrical behavior, with flexoelectricity potentially explaining ...

Commercial air travel is already the safest way to move across the planet. However, in the extremely unlikely event that an ...

Researchers Vikash Kumar and Sarthak Mittal argued that understanding sensory discomfort in everyday environments could lead ...

Held less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced, Thursday’s 35th annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony was ...

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to a light-hearted Dutch study which revealed that alcohol helps people speak a foreign language more fluently. In aviation, scientists found that drinking alcohol makes ...

The Ig Nobel Prizes are here. The winners gathered in Boston to accept the awards for some bizarre experiments, ranging from painting cows with zebra-like stripes to ward off pestering flies to studyi ...

Now in their 35th year, the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes continue to highlight some of the nation's most significant science achievements, this year offering a total prize pool of $190,000.