Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Shinsuke Imai (C), a senior researcher at Japan's House Foods Corp., and Ishikawa Prefectural University President Hidehiko Kumagai (L) attend an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for researching the possibility of a tear-free, yet flavorful, onion.