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The Ig Nobel Prizes, which are given for achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think," were presented at Boston's Harvard University in the U.S.A. on October 2. Dr. Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University's Research Institute for Electronic Science, Researcher Atsushi Tero and four others won the Cognitive Science Prize. The accolade was awarded in recognition of their discovery that true slime molds, a class of unicellular organisms with no brain, can solve puzzles. Eight years ago, Dr. Nakagaki also published a paper in Nature (a UK international journal of science) on the outstanding information-processing functionality of slime molds. For further information on Dr. Nakagaki' s research, please see the websites below.
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