Archive · 20 Sep 2025
Ig Nobel Prizes Honor Innovative, Unusual Scientific Achievements
The Ig Nobel Prizes are given out each year to scientists for making funny and interesting discoveries.
This year, winners include Indian engineers who made UV lamps for shoe racks to get rid of bad smells, people who studied how alcohol impacts foreign language skills and bat flight.
The awards celebrate research that makes people laugh first, and then think about how things work.
The Ig Nobel Prizes recognized humorous scientific achievements.
An Indian duo won for designing UV lamps to remove shoe odor.
Other awards went to research on alcohol and language, lizard pizza preferences, and bat flight.
The ceremony took place in Boston and was organized by the Annals of Improbable Research.
The prizes aim to make people laugh and think.
- Who
- Scientists and researchers globally
- What
- Ig Nobel Prizes
- When
- Thursday
- Where
- Boston
- Why
- To honor unusual and humorous scientific achievements
- Awarded For
- Unusual achievements that make people laugh and think
- Ceremony Location
- Boston
- Organizer
- Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)
- Key Winners
- Engineers with UV shoe-rack lamps; studies on alcohol, language & bats; lizard pizza preferences
- Indian Engineers
- Vikash Kumar & Sarthak Mittal
Sources
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