Premios Ig Nobel

Premiación a la “ciencia improbable”.

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Los “premios Nobel de broma”, que organiza cada año la revista Annals of Improbable Research, reconocen cada año los resultados de investigaciones científicas estrambóticas.

Ejemplos

Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Say Sato, Tatsuaki Masuda, Junichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Hirooka, and Katsutoshi Kino, for their experiments to learn whether cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid being bitten by flies.
REFERENCE: “Cows Painted with Zebra-Like Striping Can Avoid Biting Fly Attack,” Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Say Sato, Tatsuaki Masuda, Junichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Hirooka, and Katsutoshi Kino, PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 10, 2019, e0223447. <doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223447>
NOTE: This prize builds on research (by a team of scientists in Hungary, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) that was honored with the 2016 Ig Nobel Physics Prize <improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2016>

Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, for studying the extent to which a certain kind of lizard chooses to eat certain kinds of pizza.
REFERENCE: “Opportunistic Foraging Strategy of Rainbow Lizards at a Seaside Resort in Togo,” Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 61, no. 1, 2023, pp. 226-227. <doi.org/10.1111/aje.13100>

Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich, and Frank Greenway, for experiments to test whether eating Teflon [a form of plastic more formally called “polytetrafluoroethylene”] is a good way to increase food volume and hence satiety without increasing calorie content.
REFERENCE: “Polytetrafluoroethylene Ingestion as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Hence Satiety Without Increasing Calorie Content,” Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich, and Frank L. Greenway, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, vol. 10, no. 4, July 2016, pp. 971–976. <doi.org/10.1177%2F1932296815626726>
REFERENCE: “Use of Nondigestible Nonfibrous Volumizer of Meal Content as a Method for Increasing Feeling of Satiety,” Rotem Naftalovich  and Daniel Naftalovich, U.S. Patent 9,924,736, issued March 27, 2018. <patents.google.com/patent/US9924736B2/en>

Lieven A. Schenk, Tahmine Fadai, and Christian Büchel, for demonstrating that fake medicine that causes painful side-effects can be more effective than fake medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.
REFERENCE: “How Side Effects Can Improve Treatment Efficacy: A Randomized Trial,” Lieven A. Schenk, Tahmine Fadai, and Christian Büchel, Brain, vol. 147, no. 8, August 2024, pp. 2643–2651. <doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae132>

Recursos en línea

Los prestigiosos ‘Nobel de broma’ se mudan a Europa después de 35 años en EE UU: “Se ha vuelto inseguro para nuestros premiados”

Los IgNobel, que premian las investigaciones más sorprendentes del año con el apoyo de premios Nobel reales, se celebrarán en Suiza y después en otros países europeos “como en Eurovisión”

Patricia Fernández de Lis (El País 10 mar 2026)

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Sep 01 - 30 2026

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Annals of Improbable Research
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