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What started as spoofs of the Nobel Prizes more than two decades ago have become celebrated awards in their own right. This year's Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony honored 10 teams for studies that "first make people laugh, and then make then think," in categories spanning from medicine to archaeology.

The sold-out ceremony, hosted by the humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research this week (September 12), took place at Harvard. In attendance were four Nobel laureates, who assisted in dispensing the Igs—plus "triumphant handshakes"—to winners hailing from eighteen countries.

The medicine prize went to a team of Japanese scientists—two of whom accepted the award in mouse costumes—that investigated the effects of opera music on mice that had undergone heart transplants. The animals that listened to Verdi's ...

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Bob Mankoff On 'The Science Of Funny'

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It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

He says there are a lot of scientific theories about what makes something humorous – he cites 3 main categories of what works and why.

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31 Of The Most Cringe-worthy Science Jokes

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Science and humor go surprisingly well together, and scientists love studying it.

For example, scientists have figured out there are big health benefits from laughter, psychologists conducted a huge survey to figure out the funniest joke in the world and why people found it funny, and there's even a Humor Research Lab in Colorado.

We can learn a lot from studying humor, but science also makes a great subject for a lot of jokes.

Here are 31 science-themed jokes and puns and their explanations.

Warning: Some are so cheesy, it's possible only scientists will find them amusing.

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