Pigeon-guided missiles and dead fish swimming abilities win 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes

The Ig Nobel ceremony, held on September 12 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, honored unusual and improbable scientific achievements. The event took place just under a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are announced. Winners received a unique prize package consisting of a transparent box containing items related to Murphy's Law and a nearly worthless Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill. The ceremony began with a speech by Kees Moliker, a 2003 Ig Nobel winner. The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded for research that is unusual, humorous, and often counterintuitive, with past winners exploring topics such as the effect of exploding paper bags on cow milk production and the relationship between hair whorls and geographic location.