Swiss Soil Underpants Study Win Ig Nobel Prize
More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underpants to gauge soil activity, and researchers said organic soils outperformed conventional fields.
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'Soiled' undies and vicious friends research honoured at Ig Nobels
Each year, the Ig Nobel prizes celebrate research that makes you laugh, then makes you think. This year's winners include an "underwear index", a cumbersome kissing definition and why we want friends that will happily stab someone in the eye.
Unusual research on venomous snakes, soil quality and the ideal trajectory of urine were awarded at the Ig Nobel 2026 gala, conducted for the first time outside the United States, in Zurich, Switzerland. Burying the underpants for soil quality assessment, the experiments by which researchers tried to determine when attacking venomous snakes and designing a capable pistachio [...] Article Ig Nobel 2026 Awards: Buried underpants, venomous snakes a…
Burying in the ground and then digging up underpants makes it possible to monitor the quality and biodiversity of the soil with the help of volunteers in different countries. This was told to RTVI by a Swiss researcher who, together with his colleagues, won the Ig Nobel Prize in Soil Science for his initiative.
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