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Panich52

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Fri Sep 18, 2015, 11:29 AM Sep 2015

Un-Boiled Egg Cracks 2015 Ig Nobel Awards List [View all]

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Un-Boiled Egg Cracks 2015 Ig Nobel Awards List

If it's September, it must be time once again for scientists to take a playful poke in the eye from Improbable Research's Ig Nobel prize. The goal of the award is to honor "achievements that first make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK," according to Improbable Research.

Last night's awards, handed out at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, did not disappoint. Let's take a look at the winners.

The Chemistry prize was awarded to a team of scientists from the United States and Australia that devised a chemical recipe for partially un-boiling an egg.

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