The Nobel Prize has the status of the most prestigious award on the planet. It is no exaggeration to say that receiving this award is a 100% guarantee that its owner will go down in history.
A Nobel laureate can be a physicist, chemist, scientist who made a discovery in the field of medicine or physiology, the author of an outstanding literary work. A public figure who has made a significant contribution to the abolition of slavery and the rallying of nations is entitled to the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1901. Throughout history, 900 people have been awarded, 49 of whom are women. The youngest laureate is Pakistani human rights activist Malala Yusufzai, who at the time of the 2014 Peace Prize “for the fight against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education” was 17 years old. The oldest is Leonid Gurvich, who in 2007 received the Prize in Economics “for creating the foundations of the theory of optimal mechanisms” at the age of 90.
Every September, scientists who hit the world with their eccentric, creative achievements are awarded Nobel Prizes. Although experiments, as a rule, are scientifically substantiated, and the results are sometimes very unexpected and really shed light, and from this, they do not cease to be less fun.
Here are the top five research awards this year.
1. LEFT AND RIGHT SCOTTLES OFTEN DIFFERENTLY DIFFERENT BY TEMPERATURE, INDEPENDENTLY IF YOU ARE NULL OR NOT.
Roger Miyousse and Burras Bengudifa were awarded the Anatomy Prize for testing the temperature of the scrotum in dressed and naked men in various positions.
In the course of the study, they found that for some postal workers, bus drivers, and other dressed some naked men, the left scrotum is warmer than the right, while for some naked civilians the opposite is true. They suggest that this mismatch may contribute to asymmetries in the shape and size of the external genitalia of men.
2. 5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN MAKES ABOUT SALVA ON A DAY.
Shigeru Watanabe and his team won a chemistry prize for tracking eating and sleeping habits of 15 boys and 15 girls, who found that, regardless of gender, each of them produces about 500 milliliters of saliva per day. Children have lower saliva flow rates than adults, and they also sleep longer (we practically do not saliva when we sleep), so it seems that they can generate much less saliva than adults. However, since children also spend more time on food than adults (when the most saliva is produced), average daily levels are roughly equal - at least according to one of Watanabe’s previous studies on adult saliva.
3. ANCIENT ANALYSIS FEELS EVEN BETTER THAN ANOTHER ITCH.
Gada A. bin Saif, A. D. P. Papoy and their colleagues used a barn (plant) to cause itching on the forearms, ankles, and back of 18 participants, who then asked to evaluate both the intensity of the itch and the pleasure received from it scratching. The subjects felt an itch in the ankle and back more intensely than on their forearms, and they also rated the scratches on the ankle and back higher on the pleasure scale. While the level of pleasure decreased for itching of the back and forearm when they were scratched. The same was not true for ankle itch - participants still rated pleasantness higher, even when the itchy feeling subsided. For such a study, scientists received the Nobel Prize for their work.
4. ELASTIC INTESTINAL HELP WOMBATS TO CREATE THEIR FAMOUS CUBIC CAUSES.
In the last 8 percent of the intestines of a wombat (a marsupial mammal that lives in Australia, outwardly resembling small cubs and very large hamsters), feces turn from a liquid-like state into small hard cubes. Patricia Young, David Hu, and their team inflated the intestines of two dead wombats with long balloons to discover that this formation is caused by the elastic quality of the intestinal wall, which stretches at certain angles to form cubes. For the solution to the mystery, Yang and Hu took the physics prize for the second time - they also won in 2015 for testing the theory that all mammals can empty their bladders in about 21 seconds.
5. ON ROMANIAN MONEY, BACTERIA GROWS BETTER THAN OTHER MONEY.
Habib Gedik and a couple father-son Timothy and Andreas Voss earned an economy prize by growing drug-resistant bacteria on the Euro, US dollar, Canadian dollar, Croatian moon, Romanian Leu, Moroccan dirham and Indian rupee. Romanian Leu was the only one that gave all three types of tested bacteria — Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Vancomycin-resistant enterococci. The Croatian Moon did not issue a single one, and all other banknotes also issued one at a time. The results suggest that the Romanian Leu was the most susceptible to bacterial growth since it was the only banknote in the experiment made from polymers rather than from textile fibers.