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.
Master of Ceremonies Marc Abrahams poses with the 2022 Ig Nobel prize, as well as a Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill that is part of the prize presented to the winners. BOSTON — 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, the prize for comical scientific achievement.
As has been an Ig Nobel tradition, real Nobel laureates handed out the prizes, using a bit of video trickery: The Nobel laureates handed the prize off screen, while the winners reached out and brought a prize they had been sent and self-assembled into view.Curiosity Ig-nited? Learn more about some of the winners:“Science is fun.
She had no problems finding her apparent perfect match on dating apps, yet she often found there was no spark when they met face-to-face.So she set people up on blind dates in real social settings, measured their physiological reactions and found that the heart rates of people attracted to each other synchronized.“It really depends, on how you define love,” Prochazkova, a researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, said in an email.
Frequent moose vs. vehicle collisions on Sweden’s highways often result in injuries and death to both human and animal, Gers said in an email. Yet automobile makers rarely include animal crashes in their safety testing.
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