A Dutch scientist has won the Ig Nobel prize for conducting a study that involved burying around 1,000 pairs of underpants and digging them up two months later. Marcel van der Heijden, a soil scientist at the University of Zurich, shared this year’s Ig Nobel for soil science with three colleagues. The annual prizes, a parody counterpart to the Nobels, reward research that “first makes people laugh and then makes them think.” Volunteers buried identical cotton underpants across more than...
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