Ig Nobel Prize to Sweden for dung beetle - New Technology

Eric Warrant, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne and marie Dacke at the Ig Nobel Prize award ceremony where they received the award for his research on dung beetles. Photo: Scanpix

When one day ram gets lost in the darkness takes the Milky Way’s stars to help find homes. It has three Lund researchers displayed. Now, the Ig Nobel Prize for his discovery.

How to find right in the darkness if it is a small dung beetle? Well, using the light from the Milky Way stars. It Lund researchers Marie Dacke, Eric Warrant and Emily Baird discovered along with South African colleagues. The discovery is the first evidence that animals have the ability to navigate by the stars of heaven.

For research results, they have now been received the Ig Nobel Prize, an award that recognizes research that makes you laugh and reflection. Prize is awarded each year is awarded by the American journal Annals of Improbable Research. Genuine Nobel laureates participating in the humorous priscermonin held at Harvard University in Boston. The Swedes took home a combined prize in biology and astronomy. Among the winners in the other nine classes include Japanese who discovered that the biochemical process that makes us cry when we chop onions is more complex than previously thought.

In a press release from Lund University allows the researchers report that they are happy and uplifted over the prize.

– the criterion is research that first makes us laugh, but then to think. Having succeeded in the context of our research obviously feels fantastic, says Marie Dacke.

Even last year ploy a Swedish an Ig Nobel Prize, then in chemistry class. The award went to environmental engineer Johan Pettersson discovered that elevated levels of copper in tap water was the reason that many women in Anderslöv with green hair.

distribution of the Ig Nobel Prizes are always about a month before this year’s recipient of the real Nobel Prizes cabled out across the world from Sweden. So it has been ever since 1991 when the first Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded.

Here you can read more about this year’s Ig Nobel Prize.