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Charon:

Physics – Discovery that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds
Patricia Yang [USA and TAIWAN], David Hu [USA and TAIWAN], and Jonathan Pham, Jerome Choo [USA]

Biology – Making a chicken walk like a dinosaur
Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez [CHILE], José Iriarte-Díaz [CHILE, USA]

Diagnostic Medicine- Determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps
Diallah Karim [CANADA, UK], Anthony Harnden [NEW ZEALAND, UK, US], Nigel D’Souza [BAHRAIN, BELGIUM, DUBAI, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, US, UK], Andrew Huang [CHINA, UK], Abdel Kader Allouni [SYRIA, UK], Helen Ashdown [UK], Richard J. Stevens [UK], and Simon Kreckler [UK]

Management – Discovering that many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters
Gennaro Bernile [ITALY, SINGAPORE, USA], Vineet Bhagwat [USA], and P. Raghavendra Rau [UK, INDIA, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG, GERMANY, JAPAN]

Medicine – Experiments to study the biomedical benefits and consequences of intense kissing
Hajime Kimata [JAPAN, CHINA]; and to Jaroslava Durdiaková [SLOVAKIA, US, UK], Peter Celec [SLOVAKIA, GERMANY], Natália Kamodyová, Tatiana Sedláčková, Gabriela Repiská, Barbara Sviežená, and Gabriel Minárik [SLOVAKIA]

Literature – Discovering that ‘Huh?’ exists in every human language
Mark Dingemanse [THE NETHERLANDS, USA], Francisco Torreira [THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, USA], and Nick J. Enfield [AUSTRALIA, THE NETHERLANDS]

Chemistry – Recipe to partially un-boil an egg
Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston [AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss [USA]

Economics – For offering to pay policemen extra cash if they refuse to take bribes
The Bangkok Metropolitan Police [THAILAND]

Mathematics – Use of mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Emperor Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty of Morocco, managed to father 888 children from 1697 through 1727
Elisabeth Oberzaucher [AUSTRIA, GERMANY, UK] and Karl Grammer [AUSTRIA, GERMANY]

Physiology and Entomology – Two winners
Justin Schmidt [USA, CANADA], for creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects. He created it by letting all the insects sting him.

Michael L. Smith [USA, UK, THE NETHERLANDS], for letting honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least and most painful. Least: skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm. Most: the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft.

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