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The periodic Table. Surreal science. Science magazines. Ig Nobel prize winners: Beetle sex with beer bottle study gets award. By Rob Waugh Updated: 13:08 GMT, 30 September 2011 The Ig Nobel prizes have all the trappings of a real scientific awards ceremony - they're held at Harvard University in America, and the prizes are handed out by real Nobel winners.
But the alarm bells start to wring when you realise they are handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research - and intended to 'honour' the most surreal scientific research on the planet. This year's ceremony, the 21st, awarded prizes to projects including a study of yawning in tortoises - and a study of how human behaviour was changed when we really, really need the toilet. Solving a jimmy riddle: Mirjam Tuk, left, gives the acceptance speech after receiving the Ig Nobel prize in Medicine for research into what happens to decision-making while people really need the toilet.
Geology. Science and kids. Weather. Brain stuff. The mind. Animals. What children’s skulls look like as they prepare to lose their baby teeth. WorldWideScience. For scientific information. Eye-Writing Advance Made By French Researcher. A new device enabling disabled people to draw and write on a computer screen using only eye movements has been developed in France.
Researcher Jean Lorenceau's system allows users to trace letters, numbers, figures, signature, and even make drawings as if they were using a pen. Mr Lorenceau, who works in the government-backed CNRS research institute of the brain and spinal cord, says it is a breakthrough for people trapped in immobility by disease or accident. "For persons deprived of limb movement, this offers a fast, creative and personal means of linguistic and emotional expression," said Mr Lorenceau's report, published in the journal Current Biology.
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