A study on how opera may prolong one's life and research into the complex mechanism of how chopping onions causes tears have earned two Japanese groups an Ig Nobel prize.
The award, organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research as a parody of the Nobel Prizes, has honored humorous science studies in 10 categories for the past 23 years.
This was the seventh consecutive year that Japanese have won the prize.
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