Guardian
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The Ig Nobel prizes celebrate unusual areas of research that make people laugh, then think’ This year ’s winning teams will each receive a 10 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe .
Researchers from Rice University in the US created a spider-based gripper that could, among other features, grasp objects with irregular shapes.
Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Southampton won the Ig Nobel prize for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.
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