2024 Ig Nobel Awards. Scientists who studied inebriated worms, a dead trout’s swimming acumen, and pigeons as potential missile pilots were among those who garnered. How about experiments on the swimming ability of a dead rainbow trout or that time biologists tried to startle cows by popping paper bags by their heads?

On september 12, 2024, the ig nobel prize was awarded for the 34th time in massachusetts. These and other unusual research endeavors were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2024 recipients of the annual ig nobel prizes.