Swiss soil underpants study win Ig Nobel Prize

A Swiss research project to test soil quality with buried underpants has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for entertaining, yet serious, science. More than a thousand people from all over Switzerland took part in the ‘Underpants as Evidence’ project. Gardeners and farmers buried two standard cotton pairs of underpants in their soil for the experiment. The research was conducted by the University of Zurich and the Agroscope research institute. The decomposition of the cotton fabric served as an…