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• Watch some scientific silliness
The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, an annual celebration of silly (but serious) science , will be broadcast live on the Web from Harvard University at 7:30 p.m. ET tonight - just before yet another highly anticipated event that might make you laugh, and ...
• Tiny bit of melamine in food is OK, experts say
But officials stressed the scientific assessment does not mean that U.S. authorities will tolerate any melamine that is deliberately added to foods. In China, unscrupulous suppliers appear to have been adding melamine to make watered-down milk seem ...
• Nobel predictions center on rights activists
... prepare for their final meetings to single out achievements in science, economics, peace and literature for the $1.3 million awards. While the selections for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics are usually met by approval from the scientific ...
• CERN computer grid links 7,000 scientists
The amounts of data involved in the largest scientific experiment ever conducted are hard to comprehend. The LHC experiment involves firing beams of protons in opposite directions around the tunnel buried 100 meters (330 feet) below the French-Swiss ...
• Formula for Ig Nobel fame: strippers and Coke
... that, yes indeed, Coke was a spermicide, Anderson and her team are among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, the annual award given by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for oddball but often surprisingly practical scientific ...