Research on mammals that can breathe through their anus wins Ig Nobel Prize

The Ig Nobel Prize is a humorous science award, given by an American science magazine since 1991 to mimic the prestigious Nobel Prize of Sweden. The Ig Nobel Prize is awarded to scientific works that make people laugh first and then think. Scientists will have 24 seconds to present their work, then summarize it in 7 words in the most understandable way.

Research on anal respiration in some mammals wins Ig Nobel Prize

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At the award ceremony on September 12 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), a team of Japanese and American scientists was awarded the physiology prize for research showing that mammals can breathe through their anus. According to NHK, this is the 18th consecutive year that a Japanese person has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize.

One of the researchers is Professor Takebe Takanori (37 years old) at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Osaka University.

The team tested the technology on mice and pigs that had difficulty breathing through their lungs. They found that oxygen levels in the animals’ blood vessels increased rapidly after injecting an oxygen-rich solution into their rectums through their anuses. The pigs’ respiratory distress improved under certain conditions.

The Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the late American psychologist BF Skinner, who tested the feasibility of using pigeons inside missiles to guide and identify targets.

A team of European researchers won the probability prize. According to their research, "under hypothesis and through 350,757 coin tossing experiments", the coin's face when tossed and when it rested on the ground were the same.

The Ig Nobel in Biology honored their 1940 study of factors that influence milk production in dairy cows. The late Fordyce Ely and William Petersen placed a cat on a cow and repeatedly popped a paper bag to see if it affected the amount of milk produced. The frightened cow seemed to produce less milk.

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