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Dead Trout Swimming And Pigeon Missiles – 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes Are Outrageous As Ever
The 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced, and once again prove that science can be funny, which only sometimes gets in ...
Ig Nobel Prize winners include research into butt breathing, coin flips
Sept. 13 (UPI) --The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who ...
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Narcissist eyebrow study, alligator breathing helium among this year's Ig Nobel prize winners
Narcissist eyebrows, insect researchers with a fear of spiders and an alligator inhaling helium were among the topics of scientific studies honoured with awards in this year's Ig Nobel Prizes on ...
Blue Zones offered hope as real-life fountains of youth – new research says they can be explained by comically flawed data
Last month, Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for his work debunking Blue Zones. Newman’s investigation into serious flaws in the data about ...
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A Swiss Ig Nobel laureate talks about side effects and placebo effects
Every year Ig Nobel prizes are handed out to unusual science that 'makes people laugh, then think'. The Swiss winner of the Ig Nobel 2024 for medicine talks to SWI swissinfo.ch about why his ...
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Ig Nobel Prize goes to anus breathing study by Japan-US team
A group of Japanese and American scientists has won this year's Ig Nobel Prize in physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their butt. While their discovery ...
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Listen Up: Strange scientific discoveries unveiled at quirky Ig Nobel Awards
The event was held on September 12, a month before the real Nobel Prizes. Here are the 10 winners of the 34th edition of the Ig Nobels. Voice 1: The physiology prize went to Japanese and US ...
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The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery
While Nobel Prize announcements have always been newsworthy celebrations of discovery, recent years’ events have been ...
What can we learn from fraud and folly?
Davies is a wide-ranging thinker, but there is a common thread in his work: he is a connoisseur of fraud and failure. (He has already given readers of this column the unforgettable story of the time ...
Queen Elizabeth Was Nearly a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, But She ‘Didn’t Want’ the Honor: ‘Thank You, But No Thank You’
Queen Elizabeth, known for her humility, was approached about being nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Commonwealth, but wasn’t interested in the recognition.
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The Computation Behind This Year’s Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics
It is always worth paying attention when someone wins a Nobel Prize for their life’s work, but a couple of awards this year ...
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Why Does Anyone Care About the Nobel Prize?
The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...