Following on from last year's 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at MIT, the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize night took place at Boston University on September 18, celebrating real research with delightfully sideways investigative questions – and unexpectedly useful answers. You can watch the entire Ig Nobel Prize ceremony below, or skip ahead to read the winners for 2025. The 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2025) FULL SHOWLiterature Prize – US (1980)One fingernail, 35 years, a lifetime of data. Aviation Prize – Colombia, Israel, Argentina, Germany, UK, Italy, USA, Portugal, Spain (2010)Tipsy bats fly worse and echolocate poorly. You can catch up on past winners of the Ig Nobel Prize – the contest that celebrates the quirkier side of serious research – here, here, here and here.