How do you feel when you read the same word over and over again? How much weight can resurrected dead spiders lift? Do people have an equal number of hairs in both their nostrils? Not everyone can answer these bizarre questions. Only some scientists do. Don't they deserve an award for it? Molly Gambhir tells you more.

Gravitas: Smart toilets, reanimated spiders triumph at IG Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award given for intellectual achievement. However, the Ig Nobel Prize, first awarded in 1991, celebrates the most trivial and ridiculous things the best and brightest minds have studied.

Ig Nobel Prize 2023: From re-animated dead spider to smart toilets, here's the list of winners

This year's Ig Nobel Prize has been awarded to an experiment of a rhinoceros that hung upside-down to see what effect it had on animals. Organised by the Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobels celebrate science.

Research of upside-down rhino wins Ig Nobel Prize 2021

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Gravitas: Smart toilets, reanimated spiders triumph at IG Nobel Prizes

Ig Nobel Prize 2023: From re-animated dead spider to smart toilets, here's the list of winners

Research of upside-down rhino wins Ig Nobel Prize 2021