BOSTON (AP) — A examine that explores the feasibility of utilizing pigeons to information missiles and one that appears on the swimming talents of lifeless fish have been among the many winners Thursday of this 12 months’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
Held lower than a month earlier than the precise Nobel Prizes are introduced, the thirty fourth annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how was organized by the Annals of Unbelievable Analysis journal’s web site to make individuals chortle and assume. Together with handing out the awards, the viewers makes and tosses paper airplanes.
“Whereas some politicians have been attempting to make smart issues sound loopy, scientists found some crazy-sounding issues that make quite a lot of sense,” Marc Abrahams, grasp of ceremonies and editor of the journal, mentioned in an e-mail interview.
The winners, honored in 10 classes, additionally included scientists who confirmed a vine from Chile imitates the shapes of synthetic vegetation close by and one other examine that examined whether or not the hair on individuals’s heads within the Northern Hemisphere swirled in the identical path as somebody’s hair within the Southern Hemisphere.
Different winners embrace a gaggle of scientists who confirmed that pretend medication that causes unintended effects might be more practical than pretend medication that doesn’t trigger unintended effects and one displaying that some mammals are cable of respiration by means of their anus.