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Ig Nobel prizes 2023: Rock licking and other unlikely winners

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Ig Nobel prizes 2023: Rock licking and other unlikely winners

From eating fossils to reanimating dead spiders for use as mechanical gripping tools, this year's Ig Nobel prizes, for science that "makes people laugh, then think", are unveiled

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Can the dead use phones? Scientists explore this unanswered question

Can the dead use phones? Scientists explore this unanswered question

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Do those with larger brains nap more? Possibly, find scientists

Do those with larger brains nap more? Possibly, find scientists

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Urgent inquiry into whereabouts of Robinson Crusoe's insect companions

Urgent inquiry into whereabouts of Robinson Crusoe's insect companions

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Young adults fall over if texting while walking, find scientists

Young adults fall over if texting while walking, find scientists

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Is it AI or just short for Alan? A reader rages against the machine

Is it AI or just short for Alan? A reader rages against the machine

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Would you trust a robot with eyes?

Would you trust a robot with eyes?

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It can be hard to predict what will attract or scare a sheep

It can be hard to predict what will attract or scare a sheep

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Scaring up scary ways to scare birds

Scaring up scary ways to scare birds

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Have bite-mark forensics bitten the dust?

Have bite-mark forensics bitten the dust?

Feedback looks at the looking into of who (human and shark) bit what (shark and human)

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Could a cat nose function as a 'highly efficient' gas chromatograph?

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Academia’s love affair with flowers hasn’t been the same since Freud

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Does what goes down a cat always come back up?

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What happens if you give Froot Loops to a rat and study its penis

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