Josie Ford
The best (and also the non-best) science can make people laugh, then think, and every year the Ig Nobel prizes serve up some glittering specimens of this. The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony 鈥 entirely online again, thanks to the pandemic 鈥 has given us this year鈥檚 new winners and, as per tradition, Feedback regifts them to you.
Surfing ducklings
There is subtle mystery in the way ducklings manage to swim in formation. Frank Fish, who is a biologist and a human being, did experiments on this in the early 1990s. He deployed an artificial 鈥渕other duck鈥 in a…
