Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Is accidentally stumbling across the unknown a key part of science?
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High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil
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Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy
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What cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception
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Why scientists are making transparent wood
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Roar of cicadas was so loud, it was picked up by fiber-optic cables
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Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes
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Dinosaurs evolved to breathe through bones more than once
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Octopuses sleep—and possibly dream—just like humans
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Injection of kidney protein improves working memory in monkeys
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Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
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Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face
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Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger?
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Sex can relieve nasal congestion, and other work honored by 2021 Ig Nobels
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Climate contrarians predicted the world would cool—it didn’t
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"Using an implant, a paralyzed individual managed to type out roughly ninety characters per minute simply by imagining that he was writing those characters out by hand."
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Dogs have been our best friends for at least 23,000 years
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Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice
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About 14,650 years ago, sea level jumped twelve meters in just a few centuries—a puzzling past sea level rise might have its missing piece
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
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Hurricane forecasts may be running headlong into the butterfly effect
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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The long-awaited upgrade to the US weather forecast model is here
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Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
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Nature’s skyscrapers: X-ray imaging reveals the secrets of termite mounds
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We've been sure that the Earth is round for a long time, so what's driving the recent resurgence of flat-Earthers?
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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When will the Earth try to kill us again: Most mass extinctions began with vast convulsions of Earth’s interior—can we detect that?
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