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Slippery banana study wins Ig Nobel

Research that investigated why bananas are slippery when you step on them has won one of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes. The spoof awards that have become almost as famous as the real Nobels were handed out at their annual ceremony at Harvard University, US. Kiyoshi Mabuchi’s Japanese team measured the friction of banana skin in the lab, and showed why apple and orange peel are not quite so hazardous. […]