Ig Nobel prize for drunken worms

Wormen in bar

Beeld: Luukse kunst, in collaboration with DALL-E

The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded again last night, and Dutch scientists from the University of Amsterdam won the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Two years ago, we told you about the remarkable story of how you can do chromatography with tipsy worms. Researchers Tess Heeremans, Antoine Deblais, Daniel Bonn and Sander Woutersen found that the worm Tubifex tubifex could be used as a model for active polymers, as they showed in Science Advances. This remarkable research has won them the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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