A French researcher who delved into this conundrum has been honoured with an Ig Nobel prize - an alternative award honouring research that 'first makes people laugh, then makes them think'. The Ig Nobel for physics went to Marc-Antoine Fardin of the Université Paris Diderot, for a science paper questioning: "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?" "It might be cool to refuse a Nobel Prize but it's certainly uncool to refuse an Ig Nobel." The Ig Nobel peace prize was awarded to a team of Swiss scientists who discovered that playing the didgeridoo can help people stop snoring. The awards are not an attempt at ridiculing science, the Ig Nobel organisers said.

Source: The Local September 15, 2017 14:37 UTC