Int'l team wins Ig Nobel for showing helium raises alligators' pitch

An international research team including a Japanese scientist on Thursday won the Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize after showing that an alligator's pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air.Takeshi Nishimura, an associate professor at Kyoto University, received the spoof prize from the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research" at its 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which was conducted online due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.First created in 1991, the awards which parody the Nobel Prizes are usually awarded at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and…READ FULL ARTICLE