‘The data on extreme human aging is rotten from the inside out,’ says Ig Nobel winner

From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 34th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Not to be confused with the actual Nobel prizes, the Ig Nobels recognize scientific discoveries that “make people laugh, then think.”

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