NEW YORK: Scientists who discovered the inner workings of dog fleas, crisps and tangled string swept the tongue-in-cheek 2008 Ig Nobel Awards on Thursday.
The awards, a light-hearted alternative to the Nobel Prizes, were presented at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff CAMBRIDGE --The winners are in: The chemistry prize goes to scientists who researched Coca Cola's ability to kill sperm.

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A researcher who figured out that Coke explodes sperm and scientists who discovered that people will happily eat stale chips if they crunch loudly enough won alternative "Ig Nobel" prizes on Thursday.
Other winners included physicists who found out that anything that can tangle, will tangle and a team of biologists who ascertained that dog fleas jump farther than cat fleas.
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