Melbourne: A scientists from an Australian university has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize, parody of the Nobel Prize, for showing how to unboil an egg.

Colin Raston from Flinders University has built 'Vortex fluidic device,' a machine that can unravel proteins and he had his 'Eureka' moment when he fed a boiled hen egg into the machine and it came back uncooked, News.com.au reported.