Obscenity, whale snot take top honors at Ig Nobels
A British scientist has proven what most people already know - letting fly with a few choice obscenities when you hurt yourself actually makes you feel better.
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Ig Nobel: Researchers named the cream of the crop
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newcastle scientists Dr Catherine Douglas and Dr Peter Rowlinson have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Veterinary Medicine for their work looking at reducing stress levels in dairy cattle. In a paper published ...
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Oct 2, 2009
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Researchers model the effects of honest and dishonest gossip
A diverse range of fields are considered for Ig Nobel Prizes, including physics, entomology and peace. The annual Ig Nobel awards aim to recognize research that first makes people laugh, and then think.
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Sep 16, 2022
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Scientists are hanging rhinos upside-down from helicopters: Here's why
Each year, a selection of apparently weird and pointless scientific experiments receive the Ig Nobel Prize. Awarded by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the prize honors projects that "first make people ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2021
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How wombats cube their poo
OK, first things first. Wombats do cubed-shaped poos. Now you know.
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Apr 30, 2021
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Novel switching valve to receive more semen in a sex-role reversed cave insect
The female of a sex-role reversed cave insect species Neotrogla has evolved a switching valve to receive more semen during mating, when a penis-like structure in the female anchors in the male "vagina."
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2018
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Straight up? DIY colonoscopy among weird science at Tokyo show
A gadget to "translate" dog barks for humans, a "babypod" that plays music inside the mother's vagina for unborn babies and the world's first self-colonoscopy method were among the whacky inventions on show Friday at a new ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 21, 2018
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Stripes may be cool— but they don't cool zebras down
Susanne Åkesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot sun. That hypothesis is wrong, she and her colleagues show in a study recently published ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2018
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How blood-sucking insects find dark-coated cattle in the dark
Last year, biologist Susanne Åkesson at Lund University in Sweden, together with researchers in Hungary, received the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded to them for their research showing that dark-coated horses ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2017
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Liquid cats and blood-sucking bats: 2017's Ig Nobel awards
Can a cat be both liquid and solid at the same time? Have vampire bats developed a taste for human blood? Will holding a crocodile bolster or blunt your gambling drive?
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Sep 15, 2017
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