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The winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize have been named
By tradition, 10 prizes were awarded in various scientific fields, according to the award's website (The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners).
The award in the field of healthcare was received by a team from Japan, the Czech Republic, India and the USA, which studied the link between depression in young women and cat bites. Scientists have found that domestic cats and cats bite their owners suffering from depression more often, as a result of which the risk of contracting toxoplasma (a parasitic disease transmitted from pets) increases.
A group of scientists from the USA and India proposed using pieces of dried pork to stop nosebleeds in patients with Glanzmann's thrombasthenia gravis (a rare hereditary blood clotting disorder). For this discovery, scientists received an award in the field of medicine.
The physics award went to Japanese scientists for measuring the degree of friction between the banana peel, the sole of the shoe and the floor when a person steps on the peel.
The prize in the field of neurology was awarded to a team of scientists from Canada and China who tried to find out what is going on in the minds of people who see the face of Jesus Christ on a piece of bread from a toaster.
Scientists from Australia, Great Britain and Canada won the psychology award. They found that people who like to get up late are more likely to be manipulated and belong to a psychopathic type of character than those who prefer to get up early.
A Norwegian-Danish team of Arctic researchers received a prize for studying the reaction of deer to people masquerading as polar bears.
The Nobel Prize is a comic prize awarded for discoveries "that first cause laughter, and then make you think." The prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1991.
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