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

Just before a week full of Nobel Prize announcements, Harvard University introduced the alternative ceremony - the Ignoble Prize ceremony, awarded to strange research

Starting next Monday (tomorrow) and for about a week, the Swedish Academy of Sciences will publish the names of Nobel Prize winners in the various fields. The week before this week was chosen by the prestigious Harvard University for about a decade, for the awarding of the Ignoble Awards, which are awarded as a bizarre alternative to the prestigious Scandinavian award. This ceremony illuminates every year for a brief moment dark and somewhat strange parts of the world of science and research today.

The winners were chosen by the people of the magazine "Annals of Improbable Research", (a journal for studies that are difficult to repeat) for their achievements, which, as the editor of the magazine, Mark Abrahams, defined it, "first make people laugh, and only then make them think".

The Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Brian Whitcomb from Great Britain and sword swallower Dan Mayer from the United States, thanks to their research on the "side effects of sword swallowing", which proved that "sword swallowers suffer from severe complications during their apprenticeship, when they perform a show that involves swallowing more than one sword or during busy periods in shows".

Mayo Yamamoto of Japan won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her success in isolating vanillin, the main component of vanilla seed extract, from cow dung. The Nobel Prize winners sitting in the audience were offered a taste of ice cream produced as a result of the groundbreaking research.
The Wright Laboratory of the US Air Force was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to the development of ", intended to make the enemy soldiers stop fighting and lash out at each other with passion, and literally fulfill the verse "make love and not war". According to the design, the bomb was supposed to contain aphrodisiacs so strong, they could make enemy soldiers turn homosexual. The Air Force Laboratory requested 7.5 million dollars to fund the research project, but in the end gave up on the idea

Also winning awards: a team based in Spain, who answered the question of whether rats can distinguish between Japanese and Dutch when they are spoken backwards; A study looked at how sheets are folded; Another study that discovered which creatures live in our bed without us feeling them; Researchers who looked at why humans can't stop eating when presented with a never-ending bowl of soup, a study that found that Viagra helps hamsters recover from jet lag; And a researcher from Japan who developed a net that would fall on bank robbers from the ceiling and trap them.
Six of the list of winners this year financed the travel ticket themselves, in order to arrive and receive the prize with their own hands. Several past winners of the "Ig Nobel" were honored with their presence at this year's ceremony, to the applause of the audience, including Francis Pesmeier, who won the Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2006 for his research on the topic "Stopping bothersome belches with the help of digital rectal massage". And Gauri Nanda, who won the Ig Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005, after developing Clocky, an alarm clock that runs away and hides, forcing its owner to get out of bed to turn it off.