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The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and 24/7 lectures. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Does alcohol enhance one's foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2025 recipients of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.

The annual awards celebrate achievements that make us'laugh then think.' Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In the weeks before the Nobel Prizes are announced, the scientific community gathers every year for something a little more lighthearted: The Ig Nobel Prizes. Awarded to "honor achievements so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK," this year marks the 35th anniversary of the awards. These prestigious awards celebrate science's more unusual contributions, honor the imaginative, and perhaps most importantly, spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology . This year's honorees brought us pizza-eating lizards, tipsy bats, nail growth, and more that all celebrate the joy and fun in asking any and all questions.

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This is the focus of work by and, which won the best paper award at the recent RoboCup symposium . The symposium takes place alongside the annual RoboCup competition, which this year was held in Salvador, Brazil. We caught up with some of the authors to find out more about the work, how their method can be transferred to applications beyond RoboCup, and their future plans for the competition. Could you start by giving us a brief description of the problem that you were trying to solve in your paper "Self-supervised Feature Extraction for Enhanced Ball Detection on Soccer Robots"? The main challenge we faced was that deep learning generally requires a large amount of labeled data. This is not a major problem for common tasks that have already been studied, because you can usually find labeled datasets online.

Capturing professionals' decision-making in creative workflows is essential for reflection, collaboration, and knowledge sharing, yet existing methods often leave rationales incomplete and implicit decisions hidden. To address this, we present CLEAR framework that structures reasoning into cognitive decision steps-linked units of actions, artifacts, and self-explanations that make decisions traceable. Building on this framework, we introduce ClearFairy, a think-aloud AI assistant for UI design that detects weak explanations, asks lightweight clarifying questions, and infers missing rationales to ease the knowledge-sharing burden. In a study with twelve creative professionals, 85% of ClearFairy's inferred rationales were accepted, increasing strong explanations from 14% to over 83% of decision steps without adding cognitive demand. The captured steps also enhanced generative AI agents in Figma, yielding next-action predictions better aligned with professionals and producing more coherent design outcomes. For future research on human knowledge-grounded creative AI agents, we release a dataset of captured 417 decision steps.

Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically, Generative AI, is emerging as an important technology. Over the past few years a number of prominent generative AI technologies have been developed and have received widespread attention; ranging from text generation via large language models (ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc), image generation via diffusion models (Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, etc), to scientific generative AI techniques used for protein generation (e.g., Watson et al. 2023, etc), DNA sequence editing (e.g., Ruffolo et al. 2025, etc), among others. Such methods have been quickly adopted by end users and institutions, both via direct usage, as well as integrated in other tools such as code assistants and web search agents. The scientific community has shown significant interest in using generative AI models, achieving a number of breakthrough results (see e.g., Davies et al. 2021, Hayes et al. 2025, etc), culminating in a 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded in part for work with a significant component in protein structure design and generation (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2024). Yet, the adoption of generative AI (GenAI) methods more generally is hindered by their lack of reliability (see e.g., Farquhar et al. 2024, Strauss et al. 2025, Manduchi et al. 2025, etc).

Today on, we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what that means for us non-robots. This week, WIRED learned that OpenAI is ramping up its efforts in robotics--specifically, by hiring researchers who work on AI systems for humanoid robots. Humanoids, robots built to resemble us and perform daily tasks, were famous for their clumsiness just a few years ago. Senior writer Will Knight tells us about how that's rapidly changing on today's episode cohosted by Michael Calore and senior correspondent Kylie Robison. Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com . You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link . My Lord and Savior Lauren Goode, I'm so happy to fill in for her, but I miss her dearly. Also on the show this week, we have Will Knight, our AI expert at WIRED. Welcome back to the show, Will. Given the topic of today's episode, I want to ask you both. Do you have a favorite robot movie? Mine is The Iron Giant. I was just looking up when that came out because I swear I watched it on VHS as a kid. Yeah, I loved that movie. It's got a very sad ending. The robot is no longer.

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In 1907, Duncan MacDougall put dying patients on a scale. William Blake's 1805 illustration for Scottish poet Robert Blair's poem The Grave imagines the soul rising from the body at death. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn't matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the early 20th century, MacDougall's unique, purpose-built scale was ready to receive test subjects.