October 5, 2007

Ig Nobel prize 2007

Cambridge, Masachusetts: Last night saw the presentation of the Ig Nobel awards 2007. Awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine, the prizes recognise 'achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think'

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Ig Nobel prize 2007 Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Dan Meyer demonstrates sword swallowing after he and radiologist Brian Witcombe were awarded a prize for their report Sword Swallowing and its Side Effects Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Ig Nobel prize 2007 Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Brian Wansink of Cornell University demonstrates his Ig Nobel-winning bottomless bowl of soup Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk from Eindhoven University of Technology accepts her prize, awarded for completing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi commonly found in people's beds Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Real Nobel laureates Craig Mello (l), Roy Glauber (c) and Dudley Herschbach sample some vanilla ice-cream flavoured with an extract of cow dung. Mayu Yamamoto from the International Medical Centre of Japan was awarded a prize for her work on the extract Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — A moment of science: Chemists Joost Bonsen (l) and Daniel Roseberg perform during the ceremony Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

Ig Nobel prize 2007 — Real Nobel Laureate Dudley Hershbach gives a nano-lecture during the ceremony Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP

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