Harvard University hosted a solemn - the 27th in a row - the ceremony of awarding the Shnobelev Prize.
The "high award" was awarded to 10 scientists who, as stated on the website of the award, "first made people laugh and then think about it."
The winner was the physicist Mark-Antoine Fardin, who conducted a study "On the rheology of cats," proving that members of the feline family can "technically" simultaneously be considered both solid and liquid because of their "supernatural ability" to take the form of capacity and thus " beyond the boundaries of ordinary physical boundaries. "
Silver medalists who received the second highest prize - the world's award, were Swiss scientists who established that playing the musical instrument of Australian aborigines - didgeridoo - affects snoring, reducing its level.
The top three was closed by a researcher, who studied the influence of contact with a living crocodile on a man's desire to play gambling. He received an award in economics.