Ig Nobel prizes 2022: The unlikely science that won this year's awards

From however constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions to an investigation of what makes ineligible documents unnecessarily hard to understand, this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for “achievements that archetypal marque radical laugh, past marque them think”, are unveiled

Comment 15 September 2022

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The champion (and besides the non-best) subject tin marque radical laugh, past think, and each twelvemonth the Ig Nobel prizes service up immoderate glittering specimens of this. The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel prize ceremonial – wholly online again, acknowledgment to the pandemic – has fixed america this year’s caller winners and, arsenic per tradition, Feedback regifts them to you.

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