Science's Weirdest Discoveries Celebrated At Ig Nobel Awards
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.
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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 year's 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.