• Physics, 2000: Andre Geim levitated a frog with a magnet. He later won a real Nobel Prize in 2010 for his graphene research.
• Neuroscience, 2012: A study showed that brain scans can find "activity" in almost anything, including a dead salmon. The point was a warning about statistical false positives in brain imaging.
• Peace, 2004: The inventor of karaoke.
• Biology, 2006: Female malaria mosquitoes are equally attracted to Limburger cheese and to human feet.
• Ornithology, 2006: An explanation of why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
• Mechanical Engineering, 2023: Researchers re-animated dead spiders and used them as mechanical grippers.
• Physics, 2023: How much the sexual activity of anchovies affects ocean-water mixing.