2024 Ig Nobel Awards Nominations. Science that makes you laugh, then think. Boston (ap) — a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners.

The photo you see here is the blackboard in mit building 10, room 250— the venerable lecture hall where the ceremony. Here’s my annual writeup in new scientist magazine of the year’s new ig nobel prize winners.