National Sep 10, 2021
Japanese researchers win Ig Nobel Prize for study on smartphone zombies
The team found that in their experiment mobile phone distraction altered the walking behavior of people whose eyes were glued to their phones.
National / Science & Health | NATURAL SELECTIONS Oct 27, 2017
Research into reverse-sex genitalia deserved award
by Rowan Hooper
In caves in Brazil there lives a tiny insect with the most extraordinary story. It feeds on bat droppings and chews on the dead carcasses of fallen bats. When it copulates, it does so slowly — a single sexual act takes up to 70 ...
People | 20 QUESTIONS Oct 22, 2016
by J.J. O'Donoghue
Psychology professor on perserverance, doubt and the influence of his teachers
National / Science & Health Dec 7, 2015
Kiss and tell? Ig Nobel-winning doctor gives inside dish on smooching study
The discovery by a Japanese doctor that kissing can reduce allergic reactions in humans, for which he won the 2015 spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize, has posed a dilemma for a Japanese woman — she wanted to see her condition improved but did not ...
Language | COMMUNICATION CUES Oct 19, 2015
Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel medicine prize for kissing study
A Japanese doctor won this year's Ig Nobel medicine prize for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans.
National Sep 18, 2015
Huh? Kissing nothing to sneeze at? Osaka doctor's allergy relief study bags Ig Nobel award
A Japanese scientist won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans. "I wish that people will understand the new effect of kissing and I also hope that kissing will ...
National Sep 13, 2013
Studies on mouse rehab music and onion tears win Ig Nobels
by Jun Hongo
A study on how opera may prolong one's life and research into the complex mechanism of how chopping onions causes tears have earned two Japanese groups an Ig Nobel prize. The award, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research as a parody of the ...
Reader Mail Aug 9, 2012
In his Aug. 4 article, "Why Japan should amend its war-renouncing Article 9," Craig Martin tries to make a case for giving in to the demands of Japan's rightwing by ending 65 years of pacifism. Not only do I think that this is a ...