Engineering Prize - A team from the Zoological Society of London and the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico, perfected a method to collect whale snot using a remote-control helicopter.
Medicine Prize - Simon Rietveld of the University of Amsterdam picked up this award for discovering that symptoms of asthma can be treated with a roller-coaster ride.
Transportation Planning Prize - An international team walked away with this gong after using slime mould to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.
Physics Prize - The University of Otago, New Zealand, managed to demonstrate that on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.
Peace prize - Keele University won this one for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.
Public Health Prize - This prize went to Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office in the US for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
Economics Prize - The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money - ways that maximise financial gain and minimise financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.
Chemistry Prize - This was won by Eric Adams of MIT, Scott Socolofsky of Texas A&M University, Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii, and BP, for disproving the old belief that oil and water don't mix.
Management Prize - A team from the University of Catania in Italy took this prize home for demonstrating mathematically that organisations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.
Biology Prize - A research group from the University of Bristol won this for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats.
Medicine Prize - Simon Rietveld of the University of Amsterdam picked up this award for discovering that symptoms of asthma can be treated with a roller-coaster ride.
Transportation Planning Prize - An international team walked away with this gong after using slime mould to determine the optimal routes for railroad tracks.
Physics Prize - The University of Otago, New Zealand, managed to demonstrate that on icy footpaths in wintertime, people slip and fall less often if they wear socks on the outside of their shoes.
Peace prize - Keele University won this one for confirming the widely held belief that swearing relieves pain.
Public Health Prize - This prize went to Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office in the US for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
Economics Prize - The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Magnetar for creating and promoting new ways to invest money - ways that maximise financial gain and minimise financial risk for the world economy, or for a portion thereof.
Chemistry Prize - This was won by Eric Adams of MIT, Scott Socolofsky of Texas A&M University, Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii, and BP, for disproving the old belief that oil and water don't mix.
Management Prize - A team from the University of Catania in Italy took this prize home for demonstrating mathematically that organisations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.
Biology Prize - A research group from the University of Bristol won this for scientifically documenting fellatio in fruit bats.
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