Orgasm against rhinitis, sidewalk gum analysis and cockroaches on submarines. Ig Nobel Prize – 2021.

The Ig Nobel Prize (Schnobel Prize) was awarded at Harvard University in the United States. This award recognizes scientific achievements that "first provoke laughter, then thought." The 31st ceremony took place online in 2021, and the names of the winners and the titles of their works were published on the official website.

The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize. The name comes from the English word ignoble - "unusable". Since 1999, it has been awarded in 10 areas.

Biologists have received an award for the study of the language of cats. They tried to reveal how animals respond to human speech with their own sounds.

The winning ecologists studied the types of bacteria they found in gum peeled off the sidewalk of different countries.

The chemistry prize went to researchers of the composition of air in cinemas. They tested whether the composition was dependent on the amount of violence, drug use, profanity and sex scenes in films.

The award-winning economists concluded that the obesity of politicians can be considered an indicator of corruption in the country.

Doctors have proven that orgasm can be an effective way to treat common cold.

The Peace Prize went to researchers who were trying to prove that people began to wear beards to protect themselves from blows to the face.

Physicists conducted experiments to find out why pedestrians did not constantly collide with other pedestrians while walking. Their competitors, who found out why pedestrians still collide with each other, also received an award, but in the field of kinetics.

The winning entomologists figured out how to deal with cockroaches in submarines.

Another prize - for transportation - went to researchers who were studying how safe it is to transport a rhino upside down. To do this, they hung animals from a helicopter.

The winners received a prize they will have to gather themselves from a PDF printout and a counterfeit Zimbabwean $ 10 trillion banknote.