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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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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 ...

That old saying about death and taxes being the only certainties in life has been disproven by physicists, who have revealed ...

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Who could have guessed that? The “Ig Nobel Prize” is a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate unusual achievements in scientific research. Perhaps the most interesting are in ...

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 ...

In that same year, he was awarded an Ig Nobel prize for a study “demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine”. The study criticising Ariely’s ...

National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner coined the term “blue zones” while researching different hot spots for longevity ...

The Ig Nobel Prize was created in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research. Like the Nobel Prize, the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded annually. If you’re like ...