Who and for what received the award this year – read on.

licking stones

Briton Jan Zalasiewicz from the University of Leicester won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Geology. He was able to explain why many scientists like to lick rocks. The fact is that particles are better visible on a wet stone surface than on a dry one. According to the geologist, scientists have been tasting rocks to identify them since the 18th century.

Repeating words until they become meaningless

The Schnobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an international group of scientists who investigated the emotions people feel when they repeat the same word too many times. It turns out that repetition of the same word causes it to lose all meaning.

Reviving dead spiders

But American scientists won the Schnobel Prize in mechanical engineering for managing to reanimate dead spiders to use as mechanical tools for catching. So such a tool can be seen in gaming machines where people are invited to buy toys.

A toilet that screens feces

The Schnobel Prize in public health was awarded to Seung Min Park of Stanford University in the USA for his invention of a toilet that can quickly analyze human feces to study the state of human health.

A scientist invented a toilet that screens feces / Photo: RBC-Ukraine

Those who talk back

The Schnobel Communication Prize was given to research conducted on people who are very good at speaking backwards. Of course, the award winners accepted their awards by speaking backwards.

nose hair

The Schnobel Prize in medicine was awarded to scientists who used cadavers to determine whether the number of hairs in both nostrils of a person’s nose was the same. It turned out that a person has an average of 120 hairs in the left nostril and 112 hairs in the right nostril.

electric taste

Japanese scientists have won the Schnobel Prize in nutrition for the development of electric chopsticks and straws that can make food and drinks saltier.

Examining boredom

The Nobel Prize in Education was awarded to a group of scientists who investigated how bored teachers can instill boredom in their students. Researchers found that if students thought their teachers were bored during class, they felt even more bored.

To look

The Schnobel Prize in Psychology was awarded to American scientists for observing how many people on the street would stop and look up when they saw strangers looking up at the sky. Scientists have found that the more people look up, the more other people do the same.

Scientists conducted the “Search” experiment / Photo: Unsplash

anchovy sex

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to scientists who discovered how strongly the mixture of water in the ocean is affected by the sexual activity of anchovy.

These achievements are truly shocking and surprising. But, as they say, someone had to do it. Let us also remind you that the Nobel Prize winners will be announced next month.