Trending News: Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 awarded to serious work in amusing areasAfter more than 50 years of pulp-mill pollution, regulators have proposed restoring North Carolina’s Roanoke River, including contaminated floodplain habitat damaged by toxic dischargesInflation may surge past 6.5% in Oct-Nov after 5.65% Sept estimate: SBIVerity movie review: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson’s thriller fails to deliverSmit Machchhar’s heroism forces a rethink of cockpit safety‘I wanted to quit boxing’: Lovlina Borgohain fights through tough year to script historic Asian Games gold | Asian Games 2026 NewsMultiple Indian payloads launched by Space X’s Falcon 9In 2005, an Iowa carpenter who never went to college left nearly $3 million in savings; 14 years later, 33 strangers whose education he funded gathered to remember the man they had never metKotak raises FY27 crude oil forecast to $90; OMCs have cushion against price spikesPooja Meri Jaan movie review: Promising Mrunal Thakur film let down by its treatment | Movie-review NewsThe Gandhi students think they know, the challenge of teaching themAsian Games: India add another archery silver as men’s recurve team loses to South Korea | Asian Games 2026 NewsWhat human brain tissue transplanted into mice showed usIllinois volunteers removed invasive plants from 43 acres; they then planted nearly 9,000 native plugs and more than 1,100 pounds of seed | World NewsUS employment data: What to expect from September’s jobs reportVijay’s wife Sangeetha makes first public appearance after withdrawing divorce case, supports son Jason SanjayIndia’s manufacturing sector struggles to create jobsAsian Games: Nethra Kumanan ends long wait for maiden sailing medal with bronze | Asian Games 2026 NewsG.P. 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India’s women recurve archers defeat South Korea in final | Asian Games 2026 NewsIn 1984, a $57 million gift from David and Lucile Packard helped open Monterey Bay Aquarium; its sea otter programme has since cared for over 1,000 stranded animals and surrogate-raised 84 pupsUS mortgage rates jump to 7.28% after Iran war drove inflation higher. What comes nextKBC 18: Single mother who runs tiffin service gets Rs 12.5 lakh US president question wrong | Television NewsIndia’s semiconductor strategy: From assembly to AI chip design‘If India won a medal, we owe it to her’: Captain Swayams Mishra on Savitha Shri’s Chess Olympiad heroics | Exclusive | Chess NewsA Massachusetts farm stayed under one family’s care for a century and was cultivated for more than 200 years; a 2025 conservation purchase protected over 120 acres of farmland and forest for the future‘This is an issue that requires action’: G20 trade chiefs split over excess industrial capacityDupahiya 2 review: Gajraj Rao-Sparsh Srivastava return, but paper leak plot lacks punch | Web-series NewsPunjab drug menace: Why another crackdown may not be enoughPink ball in daytime Tests, penalties for time-wasting: ICC announces new playing conditions across men’s and women’s cricket | Cricket NewsA Somerset family has grown the same broad bean since 1875; 150 years later, the heirloom has entered a national seed collection | World NewsDrishyam 3 Movie Review, Rating and Release LIVE: Ajay Devgn, Jaideep Ahlawat Drishyam 3 Movie Live Review and UpdatePublic services in India: Why poor delivery rarely costs votesAsian Games 2026: India’s full schedule on October 2; medal events, and timings | Asian Games 2026 NewsA uranium mill left radioactive waste beside Utah’s Colorado River for decades; after trains began hauling it away in 2009, crews have now removed 17 million tons to a disposal site 30 miles awayNimrat Kaur recalls father’s killing by terrorists: ‘Next time I saw him was in coffin’ | Bollywood NewsBRICS 2026: How India used diplomacy to bridge West Asia dividesICC ODI World Cup 2027 full schedule: Who plays whom, full fixtures, dates and venues | Cricket NewsIn 2011, Stephen King and Tabitha’s foundation gave $120,000 to help heat Maine homes, as their radio fundraiser brought in $241,820 for residents facing a winter with reduced federal aid‘Solution was there, but it was too late’: Fahadh Faasil on his biggest flop after Aavesham | Malayalam NewsSatya Niketan building collapse: Delhi students and the hostel crisisIndia, Pakistan, Australia in same group for 2027 ODI World Cup | Cricket NewsTwo rival CEOs of Silicon Valley AI companies fight over an employee. 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And it’s all about the money‘Where is the contest between bat and ball?’ 811-run IND vs WI Guwahati ODI raises questions | Cricket NewsPutin Warns Against Nuclear Weapons: ‘Fatal point of no return’: Putin warns against use of nukes amid global tensionsNicolas Cage compares Marvel Cinematic Universe to ‘well-funded and glorified WWE’ | Hollywood NewsIran, Venezuela, Russia: US policy is shaping India’s energy choicesIndia World Cup 2027 Match schedule: Full fixture list, dates, venues | Cricket NewsA Massachusetts couple represented themselves in a dispute over damaged trees and encroachments on their land; they won a $310,000 judgment against their neighbour, and an appeals court upheld it in 2026Global bond rout deepens: US 10-year yield hits 24-year highSwara Bhasker recalls drunk director knocking on her door, asking for hug: ‘I was scared’ | Bollywood NewsWhy protecting grasslands is central to protecting rhinosAsian Games 2026: India win sailing, wrestling silver; cricket and hockey teams enter gold medal matches | Asian Games 2026 NewsScience for All newsletter: Ancient grasslands, once destroyed for development, can take 100 years to grow backIowa teacher asked students to donate to her GoFundMe to fund her medical mission trip to Ecuador, promised extra creditHDFC Bank’s new CEO Anup Bagchi: From ICICI to the top job‘Little Sanjay is a director now!’: Suriya and Jyotika wish Vijay’s son for Sigma | Tamil NewsAid may be dead. Long live international developmentHow India won a bronze medal in sailing after finishing fourth at Asian Games | Asian Games 2026 NewsBehind India’s record performance at International Math Olympiad 2024A South Carolina convenience store was vandalized. Robber Rameshbhai Patel pleads guilty to faking it to get a clerk U visaMaruti sales soar 24%, Tata Motors PV sales rise 15% in SeptemberJo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar made Mamik overnight star, refused films for 5 years, drug abuse changed life | Bollywood NewsWhat do we tell a girl who asks: Was it my clothes? My body?Asian Games 2026 Medal Tally: India hold eighth place after historic medals in wrestling and sailing | Asian Games 2026 NewsScientists can now measure the damage each new coal mine can do to people, natureThomas Stone paid £400 for a 442-acre Maryland property in 1770; after 166 years in his family and a devastating house fire, the estate became a national historic site honouring the Declaration signerHDFC Bank appoints Anup Bagchi as CEO, to succeed Sashidhar JagdishanAlia Bhatt reunites with F1 driver Carlos Sainz in ad after Cannes, fans call it ‘best collab’ | Bollywood NewsDon’t wait for consensus on AI governanceAsian Games: India script history vs Sri Lanka, bowl out opposition for sub-50 total in T20Is for first time | Cricket NewsNew US visa rule from October 1: Expanded social media screening for I, TN and TD visa applicants
Fri. Oct 2nd, 2026
Trending News: Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 awarded to serious work in amusing areasAfter more than 50 years of pulp-mill pollution, regulators have proposed restoring North Carolina’s Roanoke River, including contaminated floodplain habitat damaged by toxic dischargesInflation may surge past 6.5% in Oct-Nov after 5.65% Sept estimate: SBIVerity movie review: Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson’s thriller fails to deliverSmit Machchhar’s heroism forces a rethink of cockpit safety‘I wanted to quit boxing’: Lovlina Borgohain fights through tough year to script historic Asian Games gold | Asian Games 2026 NewsMultiple Indian payloads launched by Space X’s Falcon 9In 2005, an Iowa carpenter who never went to college left nearly $3 million in savings; 14 years later, 33 strangers whose education he funded gathered to remember the man they had never metKotak raises FY27 crude oil forecast to $90; OMCs have cushion against price spikesPooja Meri Jaan movie review: Promising Mrunal Thakur film let down by its treatment | Movie-review NewsThe Gandhi students think they know, the challenge of teaching themAsian Games: India add another archery silver as men’s recurve team loses to South Korea | Asian Games 2026 NewsWhat human brain tissue transplanted into mice showed usIllinois volunteers removed invasive plants from 43 acres; they then planted nearly 9,000 native plugs and more than 1,100 pounds of seed | World NewsUS employment data: What to expect from September’s jobs reportVijay’s wife Sangeetha makes first public appearance after withdrawing divorce case, supports son Jason SanjayIndia’s manufacturing sector struggles to create jobsAsian Games: Nethra Kumanan ends long wait for maiden sailing medal with bronze | Asian Games 2026 NewsG.P. Talwar at 100: scientist, institution builder, lifelong researcherIowa woman left a $3 million estate for 485 libraries and 128 senior community centres; her quiet final act is now transforming education and elder care in small towns across the state | World News‘Turned Lord Rama into Salman Khan, Rajinikanth’: Mukesh Khanna on Ranbir Kapoor’s Ramayana | Bollywood NewsJane Eyre in China: feminism, marriage and domesticityAsian Games 2026: Kumkum Mohod, Dhiraj Bommadevara win mixed recurve team silver | Asian Games 2026 NewsG.P. Talwar at 100: scientist, institution builder, lifelong researcher‘Real battle is spiritual’: Pete Hegseth announces Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs – what will it serveIndia-US trade deal talks inching ‘towards the end’: Greer after ‘constructive’ meeting with GoyalVvaan box office day 7: Sidharth Malhotra film earns Rs 69 crore, faces Drishyam 3 test | Bollywood NewsIndia’s FDI problem: Why the Model BIT needs a rethink20 golds lost, just one individual title won: India’s Asian Games slide offers a stark reality check | Asian Games 2026 News‘Will take additional measures’: South Korea warns Ukraine as North Korean POW row escalates‘Broke’ Sanjeev Kumar did C-grade films, gave Rs 96 lakh to friends who never repaid | Bollywood NewsGandhi’s first fight was for the voteSimi Singh: An Ireland dream, a life-threatening detour and the journey home | Cricket NewsIn 2019, a Maryland family moved a 255-year-old mansion 50 miles by barge; the 4,000-square-foot house travelled across Chesapeake Bay so they could give the historic building a new waterfront homeFed may need another 50 bps or more in rate hikes to tame inflation, says Dallas Fed chiefStars’ dogs come with nannies to film sets, reveals Dayanand Shetty: ‘Dogs have makeup, sunglasses’ | Bollywood News40 years ago October 2, 1986: Gandhi statue controversyGold medal secured! India’s women recurve archers defeat South Korea in final | Asian Games 2026 NewsIn 1984, a $57 million gift from David and Lucile Packard helped open Monterey Bay Aquarium; its sea otter programme has since cared for over 1,000 stranded animals and surrogate-raised 84 pupsUS mortgage rates jump to 7.28% after Iran war drove inflation higher. What comes nextKBC 18: Single mother who runs tiffin service gets Rs 12.5 lakh US president question wrong | Television NewsIndia’s semiconductor strategy: From assembly to AI chip design‘If India won a medal, we owe it to her’: Captain Swayams Mishra on Savitha Shri’s Chess Olympiad heroics | Exclusive | Chess NewsA Massachusetts farm stayed under one family’s care for a century and was cultivated for more than 200 years; a 2025 conservation purchase protected over 120 acres of farmland and forest for the future‘This is an issue that requires action’: G20 trade chiefs split over excess industrial capacityDupahiya 2 review: Gajraj Rao-Sparsh Srivastava return, but paper leak plot lacks punch | Web-series NewsPunjab drug menace: Why another crackdown may not be enoughPink ball in daytime Tests, penalties for time-wasting: ICC announces new playing conditions across men’s and women’s cricket | Cricket NewsA Somerset family has grown the same broad bean since 1875; 150 years later, the heirloom has entered a national seed collection | World NewsDrishyam 3 Movie Review, Rating and Release LIVE: Ajay Devgn, Jaideep Ahlawat Drishyam 3 Movie Live Review and UpdatePublic services in India: Why poor delivery rarely costs votesAsian Games 2026: India’s full schedule on October 2; medal events, and timings | Asian Games 2026 NewsA uranium mill left radioactive waste beside Utah’s Colorado River for decades; after trains began hauling it away in 2009, crews have now removed 17 million tons to a disposal site 30 miles awayNimrat Kaur recalls father’s killing by terrorists: ‘Next time I saw him was in coffin’ | Bollywood NewsBRICS 2026: How India used diplomacy to bridge West Asia dividesICC ODI World Cup 2027 full schedule: Who plays whom, full fixtures, dates and venues | Cricket NewsIn 2011, Stephen King and Tabitha’s foundation gave $120,000 to help heat Maine homes, as their radio fundraiser brought in $241,820 for residents facing a winter with reduced federal aid‘Solution was there, but it was too late’: Fahadh Faasil on his biggest flop after Aavesham | Malayalam NewsSatya Niketan building collapse: Delhi students and the hostel crisisIndia, Pakistan, Australia in same group for 2027 ODI World Cup | Cricket NewsTwo rival CEOs of Silicon Valley AI companies fight over an employee. Vinod Khosla, an investor in both, steps in‘You are like a serpent’: Why SS Rajamouli sent this unusual message to Fahadh Faasil | Malayalam News40 years ago September 21, 1986: Global trade talksIndia vs Pakistan ODI World Cup 2027 match date: When and where will IND and PAK play? | Cricket NewsMan applies for Ethiopian wife’s PR, gets rejected as woman’s divorce from first husband under Sharia law not considered legal in CanadaJohnny Depp plays Ebenezer Scrooge in spooky take on A Christmas Carol, watch trailer | Hollywood NewsWhen the House ceases to hold power to accountILT20 season 5 auction biggest buys: Fazalhaq Farooqi becomes most expensive player with $380,000 deal; Babar Azam goes for base price | Cricket NewsGrand Rapids was named for rapids that disappeared after dams and industrial changes reshaped its river; construction is now underway on the first phase of a project designed to bring those rapids backDivya Khossla questions Komal Rani’s sindoor at Lalbaugcha Raja: ‘Whom are you kidding?’ | Bollywood NewsAI apocalypse is a marketing trick. And it’s all about the money‘Where is the contest between bat and ball?’ 811-run IND vs WI Guwahati ODI raises questions | Cricket NewsPutin Warns Against Nuclear Weapons: ‘Fatal point of no return’: Putin warns against use of nukes amid global tensionsNicolas Cage compares Marvel Cinematic Universe to ‘well-funded and glorified WWE’ | Hollywood NewsIran, Venezuela, Russia: US policy is shaping India’s energy choicesIndia World Cup 2027 Match schedule: Full fixture list, dates, venues | Cricket NewsA Massachusetts couple represented themselves in a dispute over damaged trees and encroachments on their land; they won a $310,000 judgment against their neighbour, and an appeals court upheld it in 2026Global bond rout deepens: US 10-year yield hits 24-year highSwara Bhasker recalls drunk director knocking on her door, asking for hug: ‘I was scared’ | Bollywood NewsWhy protecting grasslands is central to protecting rhinosAsian Games 2026: India win sailing, wrestling silver; cricket and hockey teams enter gold medal matches | Asian Games 2026 NewsScience for All newsletter: Ancient grasslands, once destroyed for development, can take 100 years to grow backIowa teacher asked students to donate to her GoFundMe to fund her medical mission trip to Ecuador, promised extra creditHDFC Bank’s new CEO Anup Bagchi: From ICICI to the top job‘Little Sanjay is a director now!’: Suriya and Jyotika wish Vijay’s son for Sigma | Tamil NewsAid may be dead. Long live international developmentHow India won a bronze medal in sailing after finishing fourth at Asian Games | Asian Games 2026 NewsBehind India’s record performance at International Math Olympiad 2024A South Carolina convenience store was vandalized. Robber Rameshbhai Patel pleads guilty to faking it to get a clerk U visaMaruti sales soar 24%, Tata Motors PV sales rise 15% in SeptemberJo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar made Mamik overnight star, refused films for 5 years, drug abuse changed life | Bollywood NewsWhat do we tell a girl who asks: Was it my clothes? My body?Asian Games 2026 Medal Tally: India hold eighth place after historic medals in wrestling and sailing | Asian Games 2026 NewsScientists can now measure the damage each new coal mine can do to people, natureThomas Stone paid £400 for a 442-acre Maryland property in 1770; after 166 years in his family and a devastating house fire, the estate became a national historic site honouring the Declaration signerHDFC Bank appoints Anup Bagchi as CEO, to succeed Sashidhar JagdishanAlia Bhatt reunites with F1 driver Carlos Sainz in ad after Cannes, fans call it ‘best collab’ | Bollywood NewsDon’t wait for consensus on AI governanceAsian Games: India script history vs Sri Lanka, bowl out opposition for sub-50 total in T20Is for first time | Cricket NewsNew US visa rule from October 1: Expanded social media screening for I, TN and TD visa applicants
Fri. Oct 2nd, 2026

Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 awarded to serious work in amusing areas

Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 awarded to serious work in amusing areas


Finding that blowing the nose inappropriately could lead to a sinus infection won the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.

Finding that blowing the nose inappropriately could lead to a sinus infection won the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine.
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On September 3, a dozen people from various countries were declared to be the recipients of the Ig Nobel Prizes for 2026. Some readers may wonder what an Ig Nobel Prize is. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a light-hearted parody of the actual Nobel Prizes. They were instituted in 1991 by Marc Abraham, editor of The Journal of Irreproducible Research.

For example, last year, a group from Nigeria worked on how lizards like to eat pizza, and another group was feted for showing that when a lactating mother eats garlic, the baby drinks more milk.

Published – October 02, 2026 09:00 am IST

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