The Ig Nobel Prize Winners of 2016

The Ig Nobel Prize Winners of 2016

By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | September 22, 2016

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Rats in polyester

The 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes were announced on Sept. 22, revealing the honorees who were deemed to have made achievements that make people laugh and then make them think. In the 26th year of the ceremony, those honored did not disappoint. From rats wearing polyester pants and rock personalities to the science of BS and the satisfaction of mirror scratching, here's a look at this year's winners.

The late Ahmed Shafik did two daring things to win this Ig Nobel in Reproduction: He gave polyester pants a center stage, and, he did it with rats. Shafik, from Egypt, won this prize for his study of the effects of wearing polyester, cotton or wool trousers on the sex lives of rats. He then conducted similar tests on men. He published two papers on his research, one in 1993 in the journal European Urology, and the other in 1992 in the journal Contraception.

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