It's that time of the year when The Nobel Prize winners in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, world peace and economics are being announced.
Ig Nobel Prizes are given to serious scientists where result of research is to make people laugh, then make them think. Now they have just announced winners for 2012.
There are about 7 billion people living on our planet. If we would all stand next to one another on our own square meter, how large would that area have to be? Is North America big enough?
Russia was first in space, the United States was the first on the moon and Japan will now be the first nation to send a robot-astronaut to space that can communicate with humans.