Science
Melbourne academics win Ig Nobel prize for research showing worms vibrate like water – The Guardian
Physicist Ivan Maksymov and applied mathematician Andriy Pototsky placed worms on subwoofer in ‘what if’ moment
Blasting a speaker to move garden worms in a regional Victorian backyard might sound more like a high school science experiment than a breakthrough in neuroscience.
What started as an exercise in curiosity of two academics from Melbournes Swinburne University has found vibrations cause earthworms to form patterns in the same way water droplets react to vibrations.
On Thursday, the research was awarded an Ig Nobel prize the send up of the prestigious Swedish awards that instead celebrate findin…
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