A team of Japanese scientists were honored with the Ig Nobel Prize in physiology on Thursday for their groundbreaking discovery that mammals, including humans, can absorb oxygen through their rectums.

From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for science that "makes people laugh, then think"

The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG Nobel Prize on Thursday, some of these questions – which you might not even have thought existed – now have answers.

An Australian researcher found that many areas that supposedly produce lots of centenarians also produce shoddy record-keeping.

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 of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.

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The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts.

The winners of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for Physiology have found that all mammals can breathe through their backsides. While some may claim it’s an asinine joke, researchers wondered if humans with breathing problems could benefit from a blast of oxygen up the butt.

Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels,

Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year,