The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes included dung beetles that navigate using the Milky, an experiment that required eating a parboiled shrew, the discovery that walking on water, on the moon, is feasible ...

The paper, published in the Journal of Archeological Science in 1995, found that the human stomach is a barbaric environment for a shrew. Bones and teeth just disappeared, dissolved by stomach acid.

The work of a Canadian archaeologist who studied how a shrew would look after being eaten, digested and defecated by a human has been honoured with an Ig Nobel prize, along with research on penis ...

Science Ig Nobel prizes awarded at Harvard for eating a shrew and other research Marc Abrahams at the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony (with one of that year's human spotlights), an annual take-off on ...

Scientists studying the tear-jerking power of onions, dung beetle directionality, and what happens when one devours a dead shrew all took home top honors at this year’s 23rd Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.

The prizes go for all sort - excuse me, I'm not thinking of prizes now. The things I'm writing about are also for anything, really, that you can loosely call research. There's a man named Mr ...

Researchers who swallowed a parboiled shrew, ... by the stars and invented a machine to launch hijackers from airplanes were among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel prizes for comical ...

Unlocking the shrew’s secret to shrinking its own cognitive tissue in winter – only to regrow it in spring – may help doctors treat brain diseases in humans.

The U.S. and Canadian researchers who swallowed the parboiled shrew, winners of the Archaeology Prize, were seeking to determine which of the rodent's bones would dissolve inside the human ...