The “Ig Nobel” awards – given out by the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research, a scientific humor magazine – honor real research that happens to be really funny.
This year, Deborah Anderson and colleagues from the Boston University Medical Center won the Ig Nobel chemistry prize for research which ascertained that Coca-Cola kills sperm. “The sperm just kind of explode,” Anderson noted. Other prizes were awarded for a mathematical formula which demonstrates why a ball of string or hair will tangle itself up in knots, and to a French team which determined that dog fleas jump higher than cat fleas.
(Source: Reuters)
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