2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners: Man Stung by 200 Bees Among Awarded

How to unboil a boiled egg? Just ask winners of the 2015 chemistry Ig Nobel award.

A team of scientists from the US and Australia did what was considered impossible last year to win the Ig Nobel. The awards were devised to first make people laugh and then think. Awards for last year's winners were handed out by Nobel laurates at Harvard University on Thursday, according to Discovery.

Like the Nobel, winners are selected for their work in economics, literature, chemistry, physics, medicine, peace, public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research. The awards were instituted in 1991 by the Annals of Improbable Research to parody the Nobel and to show that unusual research can also yield fruitful knowledge.

The literature award this year recognized that every language has a word like 'Huh?', described as a system to fix misunderstanding.

Other notable mentions include research from Cornell graduate student Michael Smith who let bees sting every part of his body to determine which location suffers most pain, Christian Science Monitor reports.

True to its spirt, Ig Nobel winners also receive a cash award of 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, equivalent to just about couple of US dollars.