![]() The top honour in the anatomy category went to Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa for their 2007 work measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France.įritz Strack of the University of Würzburg won the psychology prize for “discovering that holding a pen in one’s mouth makes one smile, which makes one happier - and for then discovering that it does not.” The prizes aim to “celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative - and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology,” organizers said of the event, which features a traditional onstage paper airplane toss. The awards were due to be handed out on Thursday at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]() Scientists who measured children’s saliva and those examining the pleasure of scratching an itch were also honoured at the 29th annual Ig Nobel Prizes, which celebrate the sillier side of science. ![]() ![]() A study of whether pizza made and eaten in Italy wards off cancer and an inventor of a diaper-changing machine are among the winners of this year’s spoof Nobel prizes. ![]()
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