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Here are some highlights from the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, held virtually this year.

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Research on crystals brought back by the Apollo 17 mission shows that the moon is 40 million years older than we thought.

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With opera and visual art, an exhibit looks at modern genetic engineering—and thousands of years of breeding—of pigs.

A textile professor and knit expert explains why many sweaters today are of poorer quality than sweaters in the past.