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

The awards were presented at a gala ceremony held last week at Harvard University

As every year, the important scientific works are awarded the Nobel Prizes in science, literature and peace, at the same time, the not so prestigious works in science "win" the Ignobel Prize which is distributed at Harvard University. The prize is awarded by the journal for research that cannot be repeated. The winners also participate in a bizarre ceremony. This year, as in previous years, the winners are those who have made cases whose publication itself may increase public interest in science. Unlike previous years in which the ceremony took place in early October - close to the time of the announcement of the real Nobel Prize winners, this year it already took place on September 12.

Below are the ten 'winners' who received the award from real Nobel winners - Eric Maskin (Economics, 2007) and Roy Glover (Chemistry, 2005).
La Traviata Effect: The Ignoval Medicine Prize was awarded to a group of Chinese and Japanese scientists who showed that mice that had undergone heart transplants survived longer if they listened to opera, specifically Mozart's operas and Verdi's La Traviata.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: The Ignoval Prize for Psychology was awarded to a multinational team that confirmed what humans have thought for years: sculpted people tend to think they are more attractive than they really are

The stars also direct the insects: The Ignoval Prize for Astronomy and Biology was awarded to a team of scientists who found that dung beetles use the milky path to navigate.

Hijack-proof planes: Ignoble Safety Engineering Award posthumously to Gustavo Pizzo, who invented a system that would drop the hijackers and their bombs to the ground with a parachute so that the police could arrest them when they reached the ground. He even patented it in 1972.

float on water: A team of Italian scientists received the Ignoval Prize in Physics for research showing that people can run across the surface of a pond, as long as it is on the moon or other low-gravity locations.
cry a river: Onions make people, we all know that. However, the process that causes crying is complex, as the Japanese scientists who won the Ignoval prize for chemistry discovered. Who knows, maybe a tearless onion is on the way.

Digestible bones: Ignoble Prize for Archeology given to an American and Canadian team for the discovery of the ability of humans to digest, even without vomiting, the bones of dead mammals such as shrews.

Guess the cows game: A Scottish scientist won the Ignoval Prize in the field of probability for his research on the movement of cows. More specifically, he discovered that the longer a cow lies down, the more likely it is to get up soon. But on the other hand, it is difficult to predict when a cow standing on her feet will decide to buck.

The Obama Peace Prize: The Ignoval Peace Prize is awarded to the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for banning his people from clapping and to the Belarusian police for arresting a man who violated this law, even though he only had one hand.

The duck that ate the prize: The Nobel Prize for Public Health is awarded to a team of scientists from Thailand who discovered ways to restore a man's penis after his wife cut it off. The technique does not work if a duck ate the cut part after the woman threw it out the window into the nearby stream.

To the list of winners on the 'Award' website.