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Winning researchers included two scientists who studied the sex lives of constipated scorpions, and a person who made a life-size crash test dummy of a moose.

The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this years Ig Nobels.

What do the sex lives of constipated scorpions, a life-size rubber moose and complex legal documents have in common? They all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the international prize for comical scientific achievement.

Winning researchers included two scientists who studied the sex lives of constipated scorpions, and a person who made a life-size crash test dummy of a moose.

MIT cognitive scientists Edward Gibson and Eric Martinez are among this year's winners of a satiric Ig Nobel Prize, for explaining what makes legal documents so difficult to comprehend.

BOSTON (AP) -- The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have

Annual satirical awards laud little-known research topics such as why ducklings swim in a line formation

We see faces in clouds, on buildings — heck, in grilled cheese sandwiches. But why is that? And how is this a help to our survival?

By Beth Daley , Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes and other small places? Or how cats...

Have you wondered why cats are so nimble and seem to fit perfectly in cups, boxes, and other small places? Or how cats communicate with humans? A physicist and a psychologist explain.