Ig Nobel winner: Using pork to stop nosebleeds
There's some truth to the effectiveness of folk remedies and old wives' tales when it comes to serious medical issues, according to findings by a team from Detroit Medical Center.
There's some truth to the effectiveness of folk remedies and old wives' tales when it comes to serious medical issues, according to findings by a team from Detroit Medical Center.
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Sep 19, 2014
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Andre Konstantin Geim is the only person who ever received both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel. He was born in 1958 in Russia, and is a Dutch-British physicist with German, Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian roots. "Having lived and worked ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 16, 2013
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Let's face it: The Nobel Prizes aren't for everyone. That's why we celebrate the Ig Nobel Prizes, which were handed out Thursday night at Harvard's Sanders Theater.
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Sep 16, 2013
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(AP)—An experiment that proved people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive and another that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home were among the winners at this year's ...
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Sep 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Confirming a suspicion held by many dedicated scientists throughout the world, that no attribute of the world around us, or indeed inside of us should go unanalyzed, a pair of researchers has tested and proven ...
For anyone who's ever been tired of listening to someone drone on and on and on, two Japanese researchers have the answer.
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Sep 21, 2012
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A brainless, primeval organism able to navigate a maze might help Japanese scientists devise the ideal transport network design. Not bad for a mono-cellular being that lives on rotting leaves.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 28, 2011
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It was a case of a besotted male and beer. Love-sick and lonely, the male girded his loins and took immediate action to relieve his unhappiness but with a surprising outcome, as a U of T Mississauga professor discovered.
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2011
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In the ultimate accolade for the world's mad scientists, spoof Nobel prizes were awarded Thursday for studies into beetle sex, turtles yawning, the desperation of people dying to urinate and other daffy investigations.
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Sep 29, 2011
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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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Oct 1, 2010
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