EALING Council are using “mosquitos” to stop anti-social behaviour in the borough. Mosquitos are ultra-sonic devices which emits a high-pitched tone that can only be heard by people under 25-years-old. The council decided to install the devices in the...
And the winners are… We warned you last week that the annual Ig Nobel Prizes were about to be awarded in Cambridge, Mass., honoring — or dishonoring — some of the most undistinguished and farfetched work in science and other research-oriented fields....
IT IS a device with a variety of practical applications: an ingenious gadget that disperses gangs of loitering teenagers by emitting a piercing shriek only they can hear. Not the pinnacle of science, perhaps, but high enough to win the Welsh engineer who designed it...
It’s not the accolade scientists will most likely put down on their CV. But Thursday evening 1,200 people filled Harvard University’s historic Sanders Theater, some to throw paper airplanes, but all to hear who won a spoof prize based on the Nobel Prize....
This was a great week in Nobel Prize world for the U.S., but in the IgNobel Prize world, one which lampoons the Nobel Prizes, one of the winners was something we had covered earlier at RTN, the Mosquito. This is a device that drives away teenagers by playing a sound...
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