'Cats are liquids' and 'laughable' studies in the Ig Nobel Prize 2017

Ig Nobel is a scientific award sponsored by the science magazine Annals of Improbable Research and given to discoveries in scientific fields that make people laugh before thinking. The award to honor research can encourage people to think creatively, not to evaluate the best or worst science works.

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The 27th Ig Nobel award ceremony took place on the evening of September 14, 2017 at Harvard University (USA).

'Cats are liquids' and 'laughable' studies in the Ig Nobel Prize 2017 Picture 1

The Ig Nobel Physics Prize 2017 was awarded to French scientist Marc-Antoine Fardin for his 2014 study: "On the Rheology of Cats - The study of cats". From the cat photos that go into the cup, bucket or pot posted online, he came up with the idea of ​​studying the cat's rheological system, studying cat's fluid dynamics to determine if cats can flow like liquid?

'Cats are liquids' and 'laughable' studies in the Ig Nobel Prize 2017 Picture 2 Marc-Antonie Fardin from the University of Lyon won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.

Ig Nobel Economics 2017 is awarded to 2 scientists Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Geer with the study of behavior of crocodile hug when playing gambling. The results of the experiment showed that the gamblers holding a 1-meter crocodile before playing would make them bet higher. The reason is that their brain confuses the signal that they are lucky with excitement when holding a dangerous animal.

'Cats are liquids' and 'laughable' studies in the Ig Nobel Prize 2017 Picture 3 Ig Nobel Peace with the topic of sleep apnea . didgeridoo trumpet.

The 2017 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a group of six Swiss scientists with research showing that regular play of didgeridoo (the type of trumpet of Australian aborigines) is an effective way to treat sleep apnea. and snoring sleep.

Ig Nobel The 2017 surgery is given to research that proves that older men have larger ears than usual. But scientists have yet to find a link between age and ear length.

In addition, other studies such as' Sexual reproductive animals' swapped "',' Detecting human blood-sucking bats', 'Can twins recognize their faces?' also won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology, Nutrition, and Cognition this year.