A group of Japanese scientists won the Ig Nobel Engineering Prize on Thursday for their study of how people move their thumb and fingers when rotating cylindrical objects, the organizer of the spoof prize said. Gen Matsuzaki, now professor at Chiba Institute of Technology, published research in 1998 and 1999…
Here are some of the best winners of Harvard s Ig Nobel awards, which have taken place every year since 1991. This year s ceremony was livestreamed on Thursday.