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Gadgets & Gizmos: The Ignobel Prizes, reinventing the wheel & tea grown on the Moon

Gadgets & Gizmos: The Ignobel Prizes, reinventing the wheel & tea grown on the Moon

Update: 2025-09-25
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Steve Caplin celebrates some of the bonkers research that has won scientists this year's Ignobel Prizes. A Denver designer thinks he can reinvent the wheel. Austin have a very neat-looking open-top EV roadster. There's a cyberpunk digital candle. Amazon Fresh are closing all their UK stores. Waymo are to launch driverless taxis in London next year. Northumbrian Water have found a way to catch sewer-clogging wet wipes. And Kent scientists believe that tea can be grown on the Moon.

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Gadgets & Gizmos: The Ignobel Prizes, reinventing the wheel & tea grown on the Moon

Gadgets & Gizmos: The Ignobel Prizes, reinventing the wheel & tea grown on the Moon

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