Ig Nobel 2008: Coke can ... kill sperm!

Coke (Coca-cola) . can kill sperm; Dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas . are the Ig Nobel prize winners this year.

2007 Ig Nobel Prize Award (Photo: AP)

Deborah Anderson and colleagues at Boston University Medical Center received the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their 1985 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study found the spermicidal effect of Coca-Cola.

Anderson said she was serious about studying this beverage because many women used it as a contraceptive chemical to wash the vagina, and later used it to protect themselves from the AIDS virus.

Anderson said: 'Of course it doesn't work to prevent pregnancy because sperm swims very quickly. But Coke has sugar will quickly kill sperm, because coca osmotic sperm has sugar and sperm seems to be . exploded! "It also killed . HIV", she added.

The Ig Nolbel Prize honors true research, but it is meant to be humorous, before the serious Nobel Prize is awarded next week for the fields of Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Literature and Peace.

An Ig Nobel Prize Certificate (Photo: /www.theodoregray.com)

Awarded by the Editor of the Chronicle of the Unreal Research - Annals of Improbable Research (a humorous science journal), Ig Nobel based on published research, although some have humorous but often serious.

The Biology Prize was given to a French research team when it comes to studying that fleas can jump higher than cat fleas; The medical prize was awarded to the Duke University team (North Carolina, USA) because it showed that high-priced placebo was more effective than low-cost placebo.

Dorian Raymer and colleagues at the Scripps Institution, San Diego won the Physics Prize for proving why hair or a coil will definitely be tangled up.

The Peace Prize was awarded to the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee for recognizing plants also of moral value and dignity.

A group at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil won the archeological prize, after showing why a tatu could confuse an archaeological excavation.

The economic prize for researchers at the University of New Mexico when studying professional nude dancers earn more tips when they get fat.

An Ig Nobel Prize in nutrition will also be awarded to Professor Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, England. The professors fooled people into thinking they were eating new chips instead of eating old potatoes by turning on the sound of chewing potato crisps.