Liquid cats triumph at Ig Nobels
Papers on cats, vampire bats, digeridoos and cheese disgust all won at science’s most irreverent ceremony
Researchers answering whether cats are solid or liquid, how digeridoos can treat snoring and why we find cheese disgusting all triumphed at this year’s Ig Nobel awards. Presented at Harvard University, US, on 14 September, the annual parody of the Nobel prize celebrated research that at first sight sounds like a joke but often has some serious science behind it.