Japan team wins Ig Nobel award for measuring children's saliva english.kyodonews.net

By Matthew Carland, KYODO NEWS - 16 hours ago - 12:04 | Lifestyle, All, WorldA team of five Japanese won the spoof Ig Nobel chemistry prize on Thursday for their study estimating the daily saliva volume produced by a five-year-old child.
It marks the 13th consecutive year a Japanese national has won an Ig Nobel prize.
The quintet were a part of the study "Estimation of the total saliva volume produced per day in five-year-old children" that was published at Hokkaido University, in February 1995.
Chew, chew, chew, chew, and spit out."
The biology award went to an international team for its discovery that dead cockroaches remain magnetized longer than living ones.