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Counting nose hairs and licking rocks: Here are some highlights from the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, held virtually this year.

A dead insect repurposed as a gripper recently won an Ig Nobel. It’s not about what it can lift. It could help reframe the search for new materials in robotics.

The winners of the tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel prizes for this year include the developers of robot zombie spiders, a smart toilet, research into rock licking and an analysis of nose hair numbers.

Two Japanese scientists have won the Ig Nobel Nutrition prize for their study on how electric currents in utensils such as straws can change the perception of taste. Homei Miyashita, 47, a professor at Meiji University, and Hiromi Nakamura, 37, a project associate professor at the University of Tokyo, accepted…