The annual prize is given out to research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think.'
A man who had been reported missing after a night of drinking inadvertently joined the search... for himself.
62-year-old Nick Carson suffers from a rare condition that turns carbohydrates directly into alcohol.
A super fan of the Canadian singer recently made the drunken decision to change his name in honor of her.
Wasps in Britain have been getting drunk on fermented fruit and left-over pub cider, experts claim.
The curious spiny mammals had ended up drunk after sampling a bottle of eggnog that someone had dropped.
A man from Casper was picked up by local law enforcement after claiming to have come from the future.
A bizarre incident at a bar in Brazil recently saw an intoxicated monkey go on a knife-wielding rampage.
A drunk man in China ended up in hospital after mistaking liquid concrete for a bowl of sesame paste.
A new automated alcohol detection system may soon be making drink-driving physically impossible.
A 1,900-year-old papyrus containing a cure for 'drunken headaches' has been translated by researchers.
Germany has come up with a novel new way to stop drunk revelers from relieving themselves on walls.
An intoxicated intelligence agency worker was to blame for landing a drone on the White House lawn.
A particularly deadly big cat is thought to have killed 12 people from remote Himalayan villages.
Hostile seagulls fuelled by an intoxicating diet of flying ants have been causing a nuisance in the UK.
Scientists have produced a worm with altered genes that is incapable of ever becoming intoxicated.
Field guide Ross Couper snapped several pictures as the intoxicated elephants hilariously rolled around.
Finding effective ways to stop people driving their car while drunk could save many lives each year.
Dumurkota village in India was ransacked after a herd of 50 elephants broke in to a local liquor store.
One drunk man at a party in Australia thought it would be a good idea to experiment with fireworks.