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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Reanimated spiders and smart toilets win at Ig Nobels
uirky conundrums were honoured in this year’s Ig Nobel prizes, which celebrate unusual areas of research that “make people laugh, then think”. Takingthemechanical engineering prize was a team that worked on reanimating dead spiders for use as mechanical