Ig Nobel winners include a tanked mayor and wasabi alarm
The 2011 Ig Nobel prizes awarded at Harvard honor Arturas Zuokas the Lithuanian mayor who crushed a car with a tank to deter parking scofflaws and Japanese researchers who created a wasabi smelling fire alarm. Other winners include a Norwegian sighing study and a psychologist studying why people sigh.
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NASA says 90 percent of giant near Earth asteroids identified
NASA reports that more than 90 percent of the largest near Earth asteroids have been found using the WISE space telescope. None of these giant objects poses a current threat, though tens of thousands of mid sized asteroids remain to be discovered. Results appear in the Astrophysical Journal.
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