Researchers who studied the sex lives of constipated scorpions were among the winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes, the annual celebration of weird and wonderful scientific research. Because of what organizers at the Annals of Improbable Research called the "lurking ambitions" of COVID-19, this year's ceremony was held entirely online for the third year in a row. Real Nobel laureates took part in the virtual ceremony, and video trickery made it appear that they were handing awards to the laureates, the AP reports. Among the winners, whose prizes included a Zimbabwean $10 trillion bill :
- Crash test moose. Swedish researcher Magnus Gens won the safety engineering prize for creating a moose crash test dummy. He says collisions with moose are a serious hazard on Swedish roads, but vehicle safety testing rarely includes animal crashes.