Ig Nobels, which are held at the Harvard University campus, have honoured scientists behind very strange and largely irrelevant studies and research projects.The annual prizes are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research as a parody to the original Nobel prize winners.

The Ig Nobelsare decidedly silly and irreverent but honor real science projects for imaginative work. The award identifies projects because of the simplicity of how ridiculous.The Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry was given to the team of researchers who focused on unboiling an egg. Another team of researcher found that the phrase befuddlement or similar sayings were found in every human language.

The second Physiology and Entomology Prize was given to Michael L. Smith as he carefully arranged honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body in order to determine which part of the body is least painful;the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm and which part is the most painful; the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft. Mark Dingemanse and two colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands focused the study on the evolution of the word ‘huh’ in the linguistic world.