'Navel laughter' with the most silly inventions on the earth 2017

"Cats are both solid and liquid?", Embracing crocodiles will play gambling better . are some of the Ig Nobel prize winners this year.

At Harvard University (USA) recently, scientific studies made people laugh before and think, the 27th Ig Nobel was announced.

The Ig Nobel Prize is the "fake" award of the prestigious Nobel Prize, organized by the US-based Funny Science Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).

Particularly, Ig Nobel specializes in humorous inventions, surprising to the extent . bullshit.

Ig Nobel Physics: "Cats are both solid and liquid?"

This "honorable" award in this field of physics was awarded to Lyon-Marc University researcher Antonie Fardin for using knowledge related to dynamics and fluids to solve the problem. : "Can cats be both solid and liquid?"

The inspiration of this study comes from Marc observing that a pet cat can adapt to all kinds of containers such as jars, buckets, sinks .

Research results show that kittens are less distorted for long periods of time than older cats and lazy to exercise.

So, cats can be both solid, medium and liquid, depending on the specific situation.

Ig Nobel Peace: cure sleep apnea with . didgeridoo trumpet

A group of six researchers from many Ig Nobel Peace Prize countries with research on the Didgeridoo trumpet (the trumpet of Australian aborigines) affect sleep apnea.

Scientists found that patients were awake during the day and slept less after several months of didgeridoo training. Seeing strange things, they started to experiment.

The team worked with 25 people complaining about snoring, teaching them how to play didgeridoo and making them practice 6 days a week. As a result, they are more alert during the day and have less breathing problems when sleeping at night. The team concluded that blowing the trumpet can help the upper respiratory tract make breathing easier.

Ig Nobel Economics: Crocodile farming can affect the gambling blood of farmers

Researcher Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer were awarded with research on crocodile behavior when playing gambling . In the experiment, gamblers and ordinary people had to hold a crocodile one meter long before playing the simulated slot machine.

The study was conducted in 2010 with the participation of 103 people from Queensland, Australia.

The results showed that the gambling addiction group tended to place higher bets after holding crocodiles, because their brains misunderstood the feeling of excitement when holding a dangerous animal as a sign of luck.

Ig Nobel Biology: Genetically modified " animals "

The team found that some insects live in caves that appear to have antagonism in the genitals compared to normal. Specifically, children with eggs have the male genitals and vice versa.

The authors claim, this new finding will help the study of natural selection and evolution of organisms.

Ig Nobel Awareness: Can twins recognize their faces?

The Italian author was honored to receive the Ig Nobel prize in the field of awareness with the theme "can twins identify themselves"?

The idea of ​​this study comes from the fact that many identical twins do not identify themselves.

Specifically, the group recruited 10 pairs of twins and took pictures of their faces. After that, the participants were asked to distinguish faces, taken from the left, right, above, below as quickly as possible.

Research results indicate that twins have difficulty identifying themselves.

Ig Nobel Anatomy: Older men will have larger ears than usual?

Did you laugh when you heard this research? But this has been proved right by French scientists.

The team conducted a survey with a group of men over 206 people, aged 30 to 93. And it seems that their ears are actually a small additional 0.22 mm per year.

Although this research group has not yet answered the question of why there is a link between age and ear length. But this is also quite a new idea for scientists to deepen their research.

Ig Nobel Nutrition: Discovering human blood in bats - is it true that bats suck human blood?

The Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize was awarded to Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres in Brazil, Canada.

However, this is not a nutritional solution for humans, but a scientific study of finding human blood in demon bat species .

This is said to be a scientific report on this species of bat Diphylla ecaudata in nature.

This finding raises the question as to what to do when humans invade the territory of a demon bat or a bat that fights another species?

Ig Nobel Medicine: It is possible to measure the "indignation" level of a person

This award was given to Jean-Pierre Royet research group, David Meunier, Nicolas Torquet, Anne-Marie Mouly, Tao Jiang from France, England - with advanced brain scanning technology that can measure "anger to crazy "or indignant at a person's food.

Ig Nobel Digital technology: How to hold a cup of coffee to prevent it from overflowing

Jiwon Han is the award-winning person using numerical methods combined with computer simulation technology to calculate how to help you take a cup of coffee without being overflowed.

Accordingly, it is best to place them on your head, look straight ahead, and go backwards.

Ig Nobel Maternity: The baby in the belly can react strongly to the sound coming from her mother's vagina

Accordingly, Marisa Lopez-Teijon, Alex Garcia-Faura, Alberto Prats-Galino, and Spanish Spain's Luis Pallares Aniorte believe that the baby in the baby listens to music very well but instead of listening to music on the womb, give they listen through the mother's vagina, so much better.