We celebrate the greatest scientific awards night, the 31st Ig Nobel Prizes. In this multi part special we find out about the history of the Ig Nobel prizes and some of the more well known examples from storied history. Who came home with the top prize this year in the Ig Nobel's? What's the best way to airlift a rhino? Are there NSFW ways to de-congest your nose? What can a discarded piece of chewing gum tell you about your mouth or environment? A discarded piece of gum can be a mess but also a messy battleground for bacteria. Since bacteria love invading old gum, can that be harnessed for good?
Full information about the Ig Nobel Prizes can be found at their website, curated by the journal, the Annals of Improbable Research.
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Episode 533 - Bacteria melting ice and changing the planet
Episode 532 - Bacteria reviving themselves when the time is right
Lagrange Point Episode 531 - Measuring the expansion of the universe
Episode 530 - Fully recyclable electronics
Episode 529 - Listening in on conversations inside your body
Episode 528 - How our senses pass information to our brains
Episode 527 - Concrete in space from blood, sweat, tears and chips
Episode 526 - Capturing biological process in action
Episode 525 - Life in a radiation exclusion zone and #2023MMM
Episode 524 - Bacteria’s sneaky 1-2 punch to get into your brain
Episode 523 - Sinking carbon out of seawater and carbon storage in wood
Episode 522 - Making hydrogen greenly from Seawater
Episode 521 - Galaxies at the Cosmic Dawn
Episode 520 - There and back again - tales from a wandering space probe
Episode 519 - Evolving beaks and wild chickens
Episode 518 - Aurora on Jupiter and on Earth
Episode 517 - Cute green balls of algae and a changing climate
Episode 517 - How our body senses and interacts with the world
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