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Soil Science prize winners Pia Viviani (right) and Atlant Bieri on the stage during the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony held in the Zurich Convention Centre in Zurich, Switzerland. Photo: AP
Ten research teams were honoured earlier this month at a silly science awards ceremony.
Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analysed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel Prizes celebrating unusual contributions to science.
The awards were organised by a digital magazine called the Annals of Improbable Research in Zurich, Switzerland. Research teams received a custom trophy resembling a cross between a mushroom and a human foot.
One research team buried 1,000 pairs of underwear in more than 25 countries to study how soil critters helped them decompose.
Associated Press
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