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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: SqueakyVoice on September 13, 2024, 05:19:54 PM

Title: Because Science! Innit?
Post by: SqueakyVoice on September 13, 2024, 05:19:54 PM

Ihttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/12/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who-found-mammals-can-breathe-through-anuses

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researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anuses.

Reading that, it could be Research.

Probably  stick with science though...

Title: Re: Because Science! Innit?
Post by: jeremyp on September 15, 2024, 12:26:47 PM

Is the idea of breathing through your anus any more silly than the idea of breathing through your swim bladder?

Title: Re: Because Science! Innit?
Post by: splashscuba on September 16, 2024, 11:16:13 AM

It would seem, from the article, that the research is all about a way of providing Oxygen during respiratory failure. If it works, it may be deserving of a Nobel prize.