Ig Nobel 2013: Applause is breaking the law to win peace

This morning 13/9 (VN time), 10 unique achievements "first to make people laugh, then make them think" received the 2013 Ig Nobel prize, the prize is mimic the Nobel Prize awarded in early October every year .

According to AFP, scientists received awards in 10 categories during the ceremony that took place at Harvard's prestigious university (USA). This is the Ig Nobel season, also known as the 23rd "silly Nobel" since the first award in 1991.

The organizers have invited the 'real' Nobel laureates to pay tribute and award the Ig Nobel Prize to 'scientists who work seriously but their work accidentally laughs to the public' , such as tissue AFP description.

Researcher Masanori Niimi (Japan) and Xiangyuan Jin (China) on the podium received the Nobel Prize for medicine.(Photo: Reuters)

Here are details of 10 awards awarded this year:

1. The peace prize was also given to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for regulating " applauding in public is illegal" , and the police of this country for "arresting a man with a single hand for cracking hands' .

2. American researcher Gustano Pizzo (lost) received a technical safety award because he invented a trap system that helps "pack up" the hijackers and send them to the police by skydiving.

3. The team of scientists from the UK, Netherlands, and Canada received probability prizes by calculating if a cow is lying longer, the probability that it will soon stand up is huge. The group also "discovered" that once a cow had stood up, it was difficult to predict when it would lie down again.

4. The physical prize belongs to researchers who have discovered that humans can actually run across the pond, as long as the pond and the person are both on the lunar surface.

5. The group of scientists from Sweden, Australia, Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom received a dual biology-astronomy prize for discovering when stray beetles were lost, they would look up at the Milky Way to navigate.

6. Researchers claim that drunk people often think they look sexier than receive psychological prizes .

7. The Ig Nobel archeology prize belongs to a group of US-Canadian researchers thanks to the re-boiling of a shrew and swallowing it and thoroughly studying their waste to see which bones of the animal are digested. pepper maker disappeared.

8. The group of Japanese and Chinese researchers received medical awards for assessing the impact of listening to opera on heart-transplant mice.

9 . The chemistry prize belongs to Japanese scientists with the conclusion that biochemical processes make onions can make us cry 'even more complicated than what science has noticed'.

10. Finally, public health awards are given to Thai researchers with penile coupling techniques that apply to all cases unless 'they are partially eaten by ducks'.