Constipated scorpions and love at first sight inspire winners of Ig Nobels

Master of Ceremonies Marc Abrahams poses with the 2022 Ig Nobel prize (Michael Dwyer/AP)

The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement.

Held less than a month before the actual Nobel prizes are announced, the winners at the 32nd annual Ig Nobels ceremony were announced on a webcast on the Annals of Improbable Research magazine’s website.