Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2024
Can a fake medicine work better if it stings?
How side effects can improve treatment efficacy: a randomized trial (2024)
All the papers
200 real papers · 89 Ig Nobel winners · zero jargon
01 Medicine
Doctors with a curious streak.
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2022
Can ice cream be medicine?
Ice-cream used as cryotherapy during high-dose melphalan conditioning reduces oral mucositis after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (2021)
What happens if you jump from a plane with an empty backpack?
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial (2018)
Psychology
Is “man flu” actually real?
The science behind “man flu” (2017)
AnimalsPsychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2019
Can you train surgeons like dolphins?
Is Teaching Simple Surgical Skills Using an Operant Learning Program More Effective Than Teaching by Demonstration? (2016)
FoodPsychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2017
What does cheese hate look like inside your brain?
The Neural Bases of Disgust for Cheese: An fMRI Study (2016)
✦ Ig Nobel 2018
Can a roller coaster cure kidney stones?
Validation of a functional pyelocalyceal renal model for the evaluation of renal calculi passage while riding a roller coaster (2016)
Should you hold it in on a plane?
Flatulence on airplanes: just let it go (2013)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2016
Can you scratch an itch by looking in a mirror?
Itch relief by mirror scratching. A psychophysical study (2013)
Psychology
Is laughter really the best medicine?
Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful): narrative synthesis (2013)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2020
Why do chewing sounds drive some people up the wall?
Misophonia: diagnostic criteria for a new psychiatric disorder (2013)
Food
How long does a box of chocolates last on a hospital ward?
The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study (2013)
AnimalsPop Culture
Why is Rudolph’s nose red?
Why Rudolph’s nose is red: observational study (2012)
Pop Culture
How fast does the Grim Reaper walk?
How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over (2011)
Pop Culture
Is Santa a good health role model?
Santa Claus: a public health pariah? (2009)
Physics
Where does belly-button fluff come from?
The nature of navel fluff (2009)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2008
Does a fake pill work better if it’s expensive?
Commercial features of placebo and therapeutic efficacy (2008)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2010
Can a rollercoaster ride make you feel less breathless?
Rollercoaster asthma: when positive emotional stress interferes with dyspnea perception (2007)
✦ Ig Nobel 2017
Can playing the didgeridoo help you sleep?
Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial (2006)
✦ Ig Nobel 2007
What are the side effects of swallowing swords?
Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006)
Psychology
Can clowns make surgery less scary for kids?
Clown doctors as a treatment for preoperative anxiety in children: a randomized, prospective study (2005)
Psychology
Where do all the office teaspoons go?
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute (2005)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2019
Could pizza be good for you?
Does pizza protect against cancer? (2003)
Is there proof that parachutes actually work?
Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials (2003)
Food
Does eating ice cream fast give you brain freeze?
Ice cream evoked headaches (ICE-H) study: randomised trial of accelerated versus cautious ice cream eating regimen (2002)
Food
Does chicken soup really help a cold?
Chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro (2000)
Animals
Do animals bite more at full moon?
Do animals bite more during a full moon? Retrospective observational analysis (2000)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2003
Do London cabbies have bigger brains?
Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers (2000)
✦ Ig Nobel 2009
Does cracking your knuckles give you arthritis?
Does knuckle cracking lead to arthritis of the fingers? (1998)
Psychology
Do doctors really have the worst handwriting?
The truth about doctors’ handwriting: a prospective study (1996)
PhysicsFood ✦ Ig Nobel 2001
How dangerous is it to sit under a coconut palm?
Injuries due to falling coconuts (1984)
✦ Ig Nobel 2025
What happens if you measure your fingernail for 30 years?
Nail growth: 30 years of observation (1974)
02 Physics
The universe has rules. Some of them are about toast.
Animals ✦ Ig Nobel 2022
Why do ducklings swim in a line?
Wave-riding and wave-passing by ducklings in formation swimming (2021)
What’s the secret recipe for giant bubbles?
How to make a giant bubble (2020)
Why do shoelaces suddenly come undone?
The roles of impact and inertia in the failure of a shoelace knot (2017)
Food
How many licks to the centre of a lollipop?
Shape dynamics and scaling laws for a body dissolving in fluid flow (2015)
Animals ✦ Ig Nobel 2015
Do elephants and cats take the same time in the loo?
Duration of urination does not change with body size (2014)
Animals ✦ Ig Nobel 2017
Is a cat a liquid?
On the rheology of cats (2014)
Food
How does a kettle whistle?
The aeroacoustics of a steam kettle (2013)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2014
Are banana peels really that slippery?
Frictional coefficient under banana skin (2012)
How much water makes the perfect sandcastle?
How to construct the perfect sandcastle (2012)
Pop Culture
Does a falling Slinky float in mid-air?
Modeling a falling slinky (2012)
Animals
How do mosquitoes fly in the rain?
Mosquitoes survive raindrop collisions by virtue of their low mass (2012)
✦ Ig Nobel 2012
Is there an equation for a ponytail?
Shape of a ponytail and the statistical physics of hair fiber bundles (2012)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2012
Why does coffee spill when you walk?
Walking with coffee: Why does it spill? (2012)
Animals
Why do small wet animals shake so fast?
Wet mammals shake at tuned frequencies to dry (2012)
Animals ✦ Ig Nobel 2016
Why do white horses get fewer horseflies?
An unexpected advantage of whiteness in horses: the most horsefly-proof horse has a depolarizing white coat (2010)
Tech
Can sticky tape make X-rays?
Correlation between nanosecond X-ray flashes and stick–slip friction in peeling tape (2008)
✦ Ig Nobel 2008
Why do strings tie themselves in knots?
Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007)
Food
Why do the last Cheerios in the bowl cuddle up?
The “Cheerios effect” (2005)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2006
Why won’t spaghetti snap neatly in two?
Fragmentation of rods by cascading cracks: why spaghetti does not break in half (2005)
Why does wet hair clump together?
Elastocapillary coalescence in wet hair (2004)
What’s the secret to skipping a stone?
Secrets of successful stone-skipping (2004)
✦ Ig Nobel 2007
Why does cling film wrinkle in neat lines?
Geometry and physics of wrinkling (2003)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2022
How many fingers do you use to turn a knob?
How to use fingers during rotary control of columnar knobs (1999)
Food
Why do coffee spills dry into rings?
Capillary flow as the cause of ring stains from dried liquid drops (1997)
Animals ✦ Ig Nobel 2000
Can you make a frog float in mid-air?
Of flying frogs and levitrons (1997)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 1996
Why does toast always land butter-side down?
Tumbling toast, Murphy’s Law and the fundamental constants (1995)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 1999
Why do some teapots dribble?
Pouring flows (1986)
Food
Why does a mug of hot chocolate sing when you tap it?
The hot chocolate effect (1982)
AnimalsTech
Has a cat ever co-written a physics paper?
Two-, three-, and four-atom exchange effects in bcc ³He (1975)
Animals
How does a falling cat always land on its feet?
A dynamical explanation of the falling cat phenomenon (1969)
03 Animals
Science, but the subjects are fluffy.
Psychology
Do bumblebees play football just for fun?
Do bumble bees play? (2022)
Psychology
Why do dogs tilt their heads when you talk to them?
An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs (2022)
Do octopuses throw things at each other?
In the line of fire: Debris throwing by wild octopuses (2022)
Psychology
Will a cat sit in a square that isn’t really there?
If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) (2021)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2019
How do wombats make perfect little cubes?
Intestines of non-uniform stiffness mold the corners of wombat feces (2021)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2021
Are beards built-in armour?
Impact protection potential of mammalian hair: testing the pugilism hypothesis for the evolution of human facial hair (2020)
Psychology
Does your cat know its own name?
Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words (2019)
Tech ✦ Ig Nobel 2025
Can painting zebra stripes on a cow keep flies away?
Cows painted with zebra-like striping can avoid biting fly attack (2019)
Psychology
Can rats play hide-and-seek?
Behavioral and neural correlates of hide-and-seek in rats (2019)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2018
Who copies who at the chimpanzee enclosure?
Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interactions between chimpanzees and zoo visitors (2018)
Psychology
Can goats tell when you’re smiling?
Goats prefer positive human emotional facial expressions (2018)
Psychology
Can sheep recognise celebrities?
Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images (2017)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2020
What does an alligator sound like on helium?
A Chinese alligator in heliox: formant frequencies in a crocodilian (2015)
✦ Ig Nobel 2015
What if you gave a chicken a dinosaur tail?
Walking like dinosaurs: chickens with artificial tails provide clues about non-avian theropod locomotion (2014)
✦ Ig Nobel 2014
Do dogs have a secret compass?
Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field (2013)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2013
Can beetles navigate by the stars?
Dung beetles use the Milky Way for orientation (2013)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2014
What do reindeer do when a polar bear turns out to be a scientist?
Response behaviors of Svalbard reindeer towards humans and humans disguised as polar bears on Edgeøya (2012)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2021
Does every cat have its own purr?
A comparative acoustic analysis of purring in four cats (2011)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2011
Do tortoises catch yawns?
No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria (2011)
Physics
How does a cat actually drink?
How cats lap: water uptake by Felis catus (2010)
✦ Ig Nobel 2010
How do you give a whale a check-up?
A novel non-invasive tool for disease surveillance of free-ranging whales and its relevance to conservation programs (2010)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2009
Do cows with names make more milk?
Exploring stock managers’ perceptions of the human–animal relationship on dairy farms and an association with milk production (2009)
Medicine ✦ Ig Nobel 2007
Can hamsters get jet lag?
Sildenafil accelerates reentrainment of circadian rhythms after advancing light schedules (2007)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2006
Can rats tell Dutch from Japanese?
Effects of backward speech and speaker variability in language discrimination by rats (2005)
✦ Ig Nobel 2004
How do herring talk to each other?
Pacific and Atlantic herring produce burst pulse sounds (2004)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2005
How do penguins keep their nests so tidy?
Pressures produced when penguins pooh — calculations on avian defaecation (2003)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2003
Do chickens think you’re pretty?
Chickens prefer beautiful humans (2002)
Medicine ✦ Ig Nobel 2006
Why don’t woodpeckers get headaches?
Cure for a headache (2002)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2008
Who jumps higher: a dog flea or a cat flea?
A comparison of jump performances of the dog flea, Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) and the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis felis (Bouché, 1835) (2000)
Psychology
Do rats laugh when you tickle them?
50-kHz chirping (laughter?) in response to conditioned and unconditioned tickle-induced reward in rats: effects of social housing and genetic variables (2000)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 1995
Can a pigeon tell Monet from Picasso?
Pigeons’ discrimination of paintings by Monet and Picasso (1995)
FoodMedicine ✦ Ig Nobel 1996
Do leeches like garlic?
Effect of ale, garlic, and soured cream on the appetite of leeches (1994)
✦ Ig Nobel 2011
Can a beetle fall in love with a bottle?
Beetles on the bottle: male buprestids mistake stubbies for females (1983)
04 Psychology
Your wonderful brain, explained.
✦ Ig Nobel 2022
Why is the small print so hard to read?
Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language (2022)
✦ Ig Nobel 2023
What happens if you write the same word over and over?
The the the the induction of jamais vu in the laboratory: word alienation and semantic satiation (2021)
Tech ✦ Ig Nobel 2022
Is success down to talent or luck?
Talent versus luck: The role of randomness in success and failure (2018)
✦ Ig Nobel 2016
At what age are people best at fibbing?
From junior to senior Pinocchio: A cross-sectional lifespan investigation of deception (2015)
✦ Ig Nobel 2017
Can identical twins tell themselves apart in photos?
Is that me or my twin? Lack of self-face recognition advantage in identical twins (2015)
Would you rather zap yourself than sit and think?
Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind (2014)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2013
Does thinking you’ve had a drink make you feel prettier?
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder”: People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive (2013)
✦ Ig Nobel 2015
Is “huh?” the same in every language?
Is “Huh?” a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items (2013)
Why do we love the wonky shelf we built ourselves?
The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love (2012)
Animals
Can looking at kittens make you better at your job?
The power of kawaii: Viewing cute images promotes a careful behavior and narrows attentional focus (2012)
✦ Ig Nobel 2012
Does leaning to the left make the Eiffel Tower shrink?
Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller: Posture-modulated estimation (2011)
AnimalsTech ✦ Ig Nobel 2012
Can a fish from the shop show brain activity?
Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: an argument for proper multiple comparisons correction (2010)
Tech ✦ Ig Nobel 2010
Would companies run better if promotions were random?
The Peter principle revisited: A computational study (2010)
Medicine ✦ Ig Nobel 2010
Does saying “ouch” really make it hurt less?
Swearing as a response to pain (2009)
✦ Ig Nobel 2011
What does a sigh really mean?
Is a sigh “just a sigh”? Sighs as emotional signals and responses to a difficult task (2008)
Medicine
What do strangers shout at people on unicycles?
Sex, aggression, and humour: responses to unicycling (2007)
✦ Ig Nobel 2006
Do big words make you sound smart?
Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly (2006)
✦ Ig Nobel 2016
Does the world look different from between your legs?
Perceived size and perceived distance of targets viewed from between the legs: Evidence for proprioceptive theory (2006)
Food ✦ Ig Nobel 2008
Can a louder crunch make crisps taste fresher?
The role of auditory cues in modulating the perceived crispness and staleness of potato chips (2004)
Pop Culture
Does everyone notice your embarrassing T-shirt?
The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one’s own actions and appearance (2000)
Why can’t you tickle yourself?
Why can’t you tickle yourself? (2000)
Animals ✦ Ig Nobel 2004
Could you miss a gorilla walking right past you?
Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events (1999)
✦ Ig Nobel 2000
Why are the least skilled people often the most confident?
Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments (1999)
✦ Ig Nobel 2019
Can a pen in your teeth make cartoons funnier?
Inhibiting and facilitating conditions of the human smile: A nonobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis (1988)
Animals
Can you stop yourself thinking about a white bear?
Paradoxical effects of thought suppression (1987)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2006
Why are nails on a chalkboard so awful?
Psychoacoustics of a chilling sound (1986)
What does a paper about writer’s block look like?
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block” (1974)
✦ Ig Nobel 2023
If a crowd stares up at nothing, will you look too?
Note on the drawing power of crowds of different size (1969)
Food
Can spilling coffee make you more likeable?
The effect of a pratfall on increasing interpersonal attractiveness (1966)
05 Tech
Computer science with a wink.
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2024
Is a coin toss really 50–50?
Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips (2025)
AnimalsMedicine ✦ Ig Nobel 2021
Is it better to fly a rhino upside down?
The pulmonary and metabolic effects of suspension by the feet compared with lateral recumbency in immobilized black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) captured by aerial darting (2021)
What if internet addresses were deliberately unreadable?
The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO) (2020)
Animals
Why would anyone build a robot sloth?
The SlothBot: A novel design for a wire-traversing robot (2019)
Animals
Can a robot fish make friends on a coral reef?
Exploration of underwater life with an acoustically controlled soft robotic fish (2018)
Pop Culture
Is Super Mario scientifically hard?
Classic Nintendo games are (computationally) hard (2015)
PsychologyPop Culture
Are some scientists more famous than their research?
The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists (2014)
Animals
Can you build a robot the size of a bee?
Controlled flight of a biologically inspired, insect-scale robot (2013)
Physics
Why does a bike stay upright on its own?
A bicycle can be self-stable without gyroscopic or caster effects (2011)
PhysicsMedicine ✦ Ig Nobel 2010
Does wearing socks over your shoes stop you slipping on ice?
Preventing winter falls: a randomised controlled trial of a novel intervention (2009)
Could you send the internet by waving flags?
The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) (2007)
Animals
Can you write a whole paper with one word?
Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (2006)
Could a computer write a paper that gets accepted?
Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy (2005)
What if hackers had to label their own evil traffic?
The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (2003)
Pop Culture
Is Tetris officially one of the hardest problems?
Tetris is hard, even to approximate (2003)
Animals
How do you manage infinite monkeys on typewriters?
The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) (2000)
Food
Why does the internet have an “I’m a teapot” error?
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (RFC 2324) (1998)
Can pigs fly, according to internet engineers?
The Twelve Networking Truths (1996)
How many shuffles does it take to mix a deck of cards?
Trailing the dovetail shuffle to its lair (1992)
Animals
Can you send internet data by pigeon?
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) (1990)
Food
What did Bill Gates write his only research paper about?
Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal (1979)
Food
Can one cut split a sandwich perfectly every time?
Generalized “sandwich” theorems (1942)
06 Food
Peer-reviewed snacking.
Physics
What’s the physics of a perfect boiled egg?
Periodic cooking of eggs (2025)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2025
How do physicists make the perfect cheesy pasta sauce?
Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce (2025)
Tech
Can flat pasta turn itself into twirls?
Morphing pasta and beyond (2021)
Physics
What’s the physics behind tossing fried rice?
The physics of tossing fried rice (2020)
Physics
Can maths make a better espresso?
Systematically improving espresso: Insights from mathematical modeling and experiment (2020)
Physics
Why do bubbles in a stout seem to sink?
Sinking bubbles in stout beers (2018)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2023
Why do geologists lick rocks?
Eating fossils (2017)
Medicine
How do scientists know what’s really in the pool?
Sweetened swimming pools and hot tubs (2017)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2017
How do you carry coffee without spilling it?
A study on the coffee spilling phenomena in the low impulse regime (2016)
Medicine
Is the five-second rule real?
Longer contact times increase cross-contamination of Enterobacter aerogenes from surfaces to food (2016)
Psychology
Why does tomato juice taste so good on a plane?
A crossmodal role for audition in taste perception (2015)
Physics
Where does popcorn’s “pop” come from?
Popcorn: critical temperature, jump and sound (2015)
✦ Ig Nobel 2015
Can you unboil an egg?
Shear-stress-mediated refolding of proteins from aggregates and inclusion bodies (2015)
Psychology ✦ Ig Nobel 2014
Why do we see faces in our toast?
Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia (2014)
PsychologyMedicine
Does chocolate win Nobel Prizes?
Chocolate consumption, cognitive function, and Nobel laureates (2012)
Psychology
Does the colour of your mug change how a drink tastes?
The influence of the color of the cup on consumers’ perception of a hot beverage (2012)
Psychology
Does your spoon change how food tastes?
Tasting spoons: Assessing how the material of a spoon affects the taste of the food (2012)
Tech ✦ Ig Nobel 2023
Can electric chopsticks change how food tastes?
Augmented gustation using electricity (2011)
Physics
Why do Mentos make fizzy drinks erupt?
Diet Coke and Mentos: What is really behind this physical reaction? (2008)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2009
Can you make diamonds out of tequila?
Growth of diamond films from tequila (2008)
PsychologyMedicine ✦ Ig Nobel 2007
Would you notice if your soup never ran out?
Bottomless bowls: why visual cues of portion size may influence intake (2005)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2002
Does beer foam behave like radioactive atoms?
Demonstration of the exponential decay law using beer froth (2002)
✦ Ig Nobel 2013
Why do onions make us cry?
An onion enzyme that makes the eyes water (2002)
Psychology
Can a drop of food dye fool a wine expert’s nose?
The color of odors (2001)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 1999
What’s the scientifically correct way to dunk a biscuit?
Physics takes the biscuit (1999)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 2006
How fast does sound travel through Cheddar?
Ultrasonic velocity in Cheddar cheese as affected by temperature (1999)
Physics ✦ Ig Nobel 1995
When exactly does cereal go soggy?
A study of the effects of water content on the compaction behaviour of breakfast cereal flakes (1994)
Psychology
Why do we learn to love spicy food?
The nature and acquisition of a preference for chili pepper by humans (1980)
07 Pop Culture
When scientists are also fans.
Physics
How fast is the Millennium Falcon in hyperspace?
How fast is hyperdrive? (2023)
Physics
Does Superman break the laws of physics?
Superman vs momentum (2021)
Psychology
Is there a Pokémon-shaped spot in your brain?
Extensive childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex (2019)
Tech
Who is the real main character of Game of Thrones?
Network of thrones (2016)
MedicineTech
Did Pokémon GO actually get people moving?
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study (2016)
Medicine
Was Bilbo Baggins low on vitamin D?
The hobbit — an unexpected deficiency (2016)
PsychologyMedicine
Is there a Christmas spirit hiding in your brain?
Evidence of a Christmas spirit network in the brain: functional MRI study (2015)
Psychology
Can reading Harry Potter make you kinder?
The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice (2015)
PhysicsTech
How do you design a real wormhole for a film?
Visualizing Interstellar’s wormhole (2015)
Psychology
Are cartoons secretly more tragic than grown-up films?
CARTOONS KILL: casualties in animated recreational theater in an objective observational new study of kids’ introduction to loss of life (2014)
PhysicsTech
How did Disney make the snow in Frozen look real?
A material point method for snow simulation (2013)
Physics
Can Angry Birds teach you physics?
Teaching physics with Angry Birds: exploring the kinematics and dynamics of the game (2013)
Medicine
Can the Bee Gees help you do CPR?
“Stayin’ alive”: a novel mental metronome to maintain compression rates in simulated cardiac arrests (2012)
Psychology
What would a psychiatrist make of Anakin Skywalker?
Is Anakin Skywalker suffering from borderline personality disorder? (2011)
Physics
Could Batman really glide on his cape?
Trajectory of a falling Batman (2011)
Medicine
How many bonks on the head happen in Asterix?
Traumatic brain injuries in illustrated literature: experience from a series of over 700 head injuries in the Asterix comic books (2011)
Medicine
Would we survive a zombie outbreak? (Maths says…)
When zombies attack!: Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection (2009)
MedicineFood
Does sugar really make kids hyper?
Festive medical myths (2008)
MedicinePhysics
Is head banging bad for your neck?
Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a hard bass (2008)
Medicine
Can a Harry Potter book keep kids out of hospital?
Harry Potter casts a spell on accident prone children (2005)
PsychologyAnimals
Does wearing red help you win?
Red enhances human performance in contests (2005)
FoodPsychology
Would kids pick a toy over sweets on Halloween?
Trick, treat, or toy: children are just as likely to choose toys as candy on Halloween (2003)
PsychologyMedicine
What would a doctor make of Winnie-the-Pooh?
Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne (2000)
Medicine
Is CPR on TV too good to be true?
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation on television. Miracles and misinformation (1996)
Physics
Could a Star Trek warp drive actually work?
The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity (1994)
Medicine
What illness did Tiny Tim have?
What was wrong with Tiny Tim? (1992)