Weird News Urinal study wins physics prize
September 14, 2026
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Urinal study wins physics prize
A quest to crack one of the great curses of modern life – the splashback from men’s urinals – has won science’s greatest alternative award, the Ig Nobel prize.
One million litres of pee a day have to be mopped up from the floors of American men’s toilets alone, according to a crack team of researchers from the US, Canada, China and Saudi Arabia. They donned yellow raincoats to pick up the Ig Nobel physics prize in Zurich, with the economics prize going to a study that found rich people are more likely to steal children’s sweets than the rest of us.
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