Strange and interesting and ignoble

Missile guidance by pigeons. The image was prepared using DALEE

Research on guided missiles with the help of pigeons and the swimming abilities of dead fish are among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes

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The 34th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, which took place less than a month before the actual Nobel Prizes were announced, was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was organized by the website of the Annals of Improbable Research magazine in order to
A moment of science, from the Ignoble Awards 2017. Photo: Mike Binveniste/Improbable Research

Voodoo dolls, flies in wine and the diet of cannibals - Ig Nobel Prize 2018

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A dog is peeing. Photo: shutterstock

Ignoble 2015: How to make a chicken walk like a dinosaur and how long it takes mammals to empty their bladder

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A man steps on a banana peel. Photo: shutterstock

Just don't step on the banana - 2014 Ignoval Award for research that examined the friction of the foot with the banana peel

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The ugly science pays off / Rachel Flatman

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The Dnipropetrovsk Opera is produced by the Rigoletto Opera. Photo: Igor Bulgrin, via shutterstock

Ignoval 2013: recommendation for heart transplant recipients - go to the opera; Insects that navigate by the stars, research that determined why onions make us cry and more

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Model with dyed green hair. Illustration: shutterstock

Green hairs, brain activity in dead salmon among 2012 Ignoble Prize winners

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Frederick Leighton, fisherman and sailor. Painted between 1856-8. From Wikipedia

NOAA: Mermaids exist, after all, only in fairy tales

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Intricate geometric shapes in a corn field. From Wikipedia

Crop circles - hoax, environmental art or intelligent messages?

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Red-footed turtle. From Wikipedia

Ignoble 2011: Is yawning contagious and why do we sigh?

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Three Nobel Prize laureates: Roy Glover (Physics 2005), Sheldon Glashaw (Physics, 1979), and James Muller (Peace, 1985), were captured demonstrating one of the winning inventions from 2009 - a bra that turns into a gas mask, at the 2010 Ignobel Awards ceremony.

Ig Nobel 2010: Slime and trains, whale snot, and primate sexual behavior in bats

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Spaghetti breaking experiment in the lab of Michael Higley and Andrew Belmonte. Photo courtesy of the researchers

Why does dry spaghetti break into more than 2 pieces?

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Polish is a difficult language, and a bra that turns into gas masks - Ignoble Awards 2009

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Was the Loch Ness monster discovered using google earth?

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Between art and suicide - about sleepwalking

"Mars is as big as the moon." Illustration: NASA

O Mars, O Mars, in your life. On 27/8/2009 Mars will not be in the sky at all during the evening hours

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The strange case of the poisonous lady - on the psychology of a crowd

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Ignoble Biology Prize for proving that dog fleas jump higher than cat fleas

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Again the nonsense returns: Mars will not look as big as the Moon

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A Canadian inventor claims to have invented a "perpetum mobile" engine

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just kidding

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Developers of a bomb that turns enemy soldiers into lovers won the Ignoval Prize

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The official prototype of the kilogram loses weight

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Swallowing swords: a less dangerous occupation than it seems

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The power of a wrong email is renewed year after year. Will Mars really be as big as the Moon?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A German returned a stolen pharaonic glyph, fearing exposure to the curse of the pharaohs

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A world in a crazy jacket 44/The British are afraid of the children

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The device repels the youth from Britain and Israeli research won Ig-Nobel prizes

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Farmers found a chicken with 4 legs

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The Ig-Nobel Prizes for 2005 were awarded

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Yehuda Sabdarmish/A proposal for an alternative gravitation formula: a thought exercise

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Is Mars as big as the Moon? Not a chance. Illustration: UNIVERSE TODAY

NASA's response to an email circulating online making alleged claims about Mars

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The US planned to produce biological weapons that disrupt the hormonal system

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easter island From Wikipedia

The "Muay" statues on Easter Island are in danger

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At the beginning of this month, the UNESCO agency donated 11.5 million dollars for the restoration of the giant stone statues in the Easter Islands
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Reminder at the end of August Earth and Mars are closer than ever

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Distributes the "Ig Nobel" prize to scientists whose findings "do not need to be reproduced"

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The scientist who was considered a Nobel candidate for his achievements in the field of nanotechnology was revealed to be a fraud

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The aliens really like corn or the science behind the movie "Science"

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The Ig-Nobel Prizes for achievements that cannot and/or are not desirable to reproduce

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Researchers state that after five shuffles the deck of cards is shuffled

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