From drunk worms to mammals that breath through their anuses, founder Marc Abrahams on the winners of this year's Ig Nobel ...
Scientists who studied inebriated worms, a dead trout’s swimming acumen, and pigeons as potential missile pilots were among ...
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This year's Ig Nobel ceremony was held at MIT on Thursday evening, with the awards presented by actual Nobel Prize laureates.
The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, ...
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Among those collecting their prizes was a Japanese research team led by Ryo Okabe and Takanori Takebe who discovered that mammals can breathe through their anuses. They say in their paper that ...
A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead ...
Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ...
The Fed's higher borrowing costs discouraged home building, adding inflation pressure, Joseph Stiglitz said.