Ig Nobel awards honor weird science advances
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If a herring asks you to pull his finger, be very afraid. Thatâs one of the lessons derived from this yearâs Ig Nobel awards ceremony, an event that honors offbeat scientific achievements.
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That&#39;s assuming the Scottish Association for Marine Science is correct in its conclusion that the tiny fish communicate via strategic gas releases, one of the scientific breakthroughs recognized in the 2004 &quot;Ig Nobel&quot; Prizes.
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The scientists who discovered how cells mark proteins for destruction receive the 2004 Nobel Prize for chemistry.
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NEW YORK -- Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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One of the worldâs most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show. From a homemade iron lung to ancient dentistsâ chairs and antique operating tables, it comprises part of the 170,000-odd items in the storerooms of Londonâs Science Museum.
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Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering how people can recognize an estimated 10,000 odors, from spoiled meat to a lover's perfume.
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U.S. scientists Richard Axel and  Linda Buck won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine for gene  studies that explained how the human sense of smell functions,  Sweden's Karolinska university hospital said on Monday.
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Wired News names the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007.
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Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:
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Oct. 1, 2004 - A research team that showed herring communicate by farting and the authors of a study on the effect of country music on suicide were among the winners of the 2004 Ig Nobel prize.
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Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for discovering how to control the flow of genetic information in a cell.
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The eating habits of dung beetles, the attraction of mosquitoes to Limburger cheese, and "digital rectal massage" were among the research awarded at this year's Ig Nobels.
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Their discoveries may be hard for many to comprehend, but this year's Nobel Prize winners still have to explain what they did and how they did it.
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Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for revealing how forces in the atomic nucleus keep it from flying apart -- a discovery that has brought science one step closer to a &quot;grand unified theory&quot; of how the universe operates at the
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An American and a Norwegian were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for research into business cycles that changed how central banks conducted monetary policy in a number of countries over the past 10 years.
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Just days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work, an alarming new study finds that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected.