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Science

Study revealing why legal contracts are hard to read wins Ig Nobel Prize

Celebrating the stranger side of science – focusing on those discoveries that can make you laugh and then make you think – the 2022 the Ig Nobel Prizes serve as a good-natured counterpoint to the stuffy and impenetrable Nobel Prizes.

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Astronomy

NASA offering cash prizes for lunar toilet concepts

NASA's Artemis mission will (hopefully) take astronauts to the Moon in 2024 … and when those people get there, they'll need to go to the bathroom. With that in mind, the space agency is now looking to the public for ideas for "moon toilets."

Science

2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by researchers at Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2013 was awarded jointly today to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells."