“How a silly science prize changed my career” is the headline on an article in Nature magazine. Catriona Clarke interviewed some past winners of the Ig Nobel Prize. (Nature later made a podcast version of this. The article begins: Eleanor Maguire wasn’t too thrilled when she was first offered an Ig Nobel Prize. The neuroscientist […]
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Better not mention the polywater
The Polywater debacle has been called ‘one of the most famous mistaken scientific research programs of the past half-century’. It was initially feared that the USSR’s discovery of highly viscous polywater, which froze at −40 °C and boiled at 150 °C, might spell the end for all life on Earth. If it escaped from the […]
