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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi (L front), a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a banana speaking about the work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, which led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014.

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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi, a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a bunch of bananas during an interview with Kyodo News at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014. The work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, which was awarded the same day at the university.

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Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Shinsuke Imai (C), a senior researcher at Japan's House Foods Corp., and Ishikawa Prefectural University President Hidehiko Kumagai (L) attend an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for researching the possibility of a tear-free, yet flavorful, onion.

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Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Teikyo University School of Medicine Associate Professor Masanori Niimi (C) poses for photos with co-awardees during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize for studying how opera music affects mice heart transplants.

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Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Japanese researchers Kazutaka Kurihara (C) and Koji Tsukada (R) speak during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012. They won the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that confuses and stifles a person speaking by sending the speaker a delayed recording of their own voice.

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Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Japanese researchers Koji Tsukada (L) and Kazutaka Kurihara (C) receive the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that confuses and stifles a person speaking by sending the speaker a delayed recording of their own voice, during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012.

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Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel award for kissing as allergy relief study

A couple kiss during the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 17, 2015. Japanese scientist Hajime Kimata received the prize jointly with three Slovakian scientists for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Banana peel slickness study nets Japanese team Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Kiyoshi Mabuchi (L front), a professor of Japan's Kitasato University, holds a banana speaking about the work by a group of researchers, including himself, measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel, which led to the winning of the spoof Ig Nobel Prize for physics in 2014, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize winner

Screenshot image shows an international research team, the winner of the Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize, attending the award ceremony held online on Sept. 17, 2020. They won the spoof prize for their study that discovered an alligator's pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air.

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Screenshot image shows Japanese scientist Takeshi Nishimura, an associate professor at Kyoto University, as he appears on the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony held online on Sept. 17, 2020. An international research team, including Nishimura, won the Acoustics prize of the spoof awards for their study that discovered an alligator's pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air.

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Japan team wins Ig Nobel award for measuring children's saliva

Shigeru Watanabe (L), a professor of pediatric dentistry at the School of Health Sciences at Meikai University in Japan, is pictured during a ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2019, after a team of five Japanese led by him won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for their study estimating the daily saliva volume produced by a five-year-old child. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan team wins Ig Nobel award for measuring children's saliva

Shigeru Watanabe, a professor of pediatric dentistry at the School of Health Sciences at Meikai University in Japan, is pictured during a ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2019, after a team of five Japanese led by him won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for their study estimating the daily saliva volume produced by a five-year-old child. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan team wins Ig Nobel award for measuring children's saliva

Shigeru Watanabe, a professor of pediatric dentistry at the School of Health Sciences at Meikai University in Japan, poses at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2019, after a team of five Japanese led by him won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize for their study estimating the daily saliva volume produced by a five-year-old child. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ig Nobel award winner attends debrief session

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Ig Nobel award winner attends debrief session

The spoof Ig Nobel perception prize winner Atsuki Higashiyama, professor at Japan's Ritsumeikan University, attends a debrief session in the city of Kyoto on Sept. 29, 2016. Higashiyama was given the award for determining that objects look smaller when viewed from between one's legs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo