How zebrafish helped treat a genetic disease, a common cold virus could treat bladder cancer, the origins of a fast radio burst, and the creepy crawlies we find fearful and disgusting.
SoT 271: Seductive Cockatoo Music
- July 20, 2017
- Tagged as: animals, Anne Druyan, Carl Sagan, concrete, golden records, life, mars, music, Romans, tools, Voyager
The secret to Roman concrete, toxic Martian soil, birds play musical instruments, and the man laughing on the Golden Record.
SoT 245: The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
- October 16, 2016
- Tagged as: animals, brain, climate change, corporate fraud, Deepak Chopra, dragonflies, entomology, flies, fool, honesty, horseflies, Ig Nobel, intelligence, itch, liars, lie, marketing, perception, personalities, pollution, rats, rocks, rubbber hand trick, sex, Volkswagon
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year’s winners: from rats in pants to collecting flies!