“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: “Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,” Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis […]
This is the latest in a series of drawings by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. (This one also harmonizes with the Halloween season.) This one celebrates the Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize that was awarded in the year 2017 to Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres, for the first scientific report of human […]
“Normally the ‘Ig Nobel Prize’ is awarded to researchers who have strange, silly, or unimportant scientific research, but this startling revelation — that the legendary vampire bat has a taste for our blood — may have highlighted a serious health risk for people living in Central and South America.” — report by Arnold Carreiro, published […]
The Associated Press tells of the new study by Ig Nobel Prize (for the study “‘Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder’: People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive“) winner Brad Bushman [pictured here] and colleagues: The researchers studied 107 married couples for three weeks. Each night, they measured […]