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  "id": 5425637,
  "title": "Ig Nobel Prize winners reveal why babies smell better than teenagers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/ig-nobel-prize-winners-reveal-why-babies-smell-better-than-teenagers",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-03T21:10:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-ig-nobel-prize-winners-reveal.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Babies smell wonderful—at least to their parents. An international research team of Ilona Croy, Tomasz Frackowiak, Thomas Hummel and Agnieszka Sorokowska investigated why teenagers lose this special olfactory advantage and has now been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for the research.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nippon.com News",
        "title": "Nobel-Winning Japanese Scientist Hideki Shirakawa Dies at 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobel-winning-japanese-scientist-hideki-shirakawa-dies-at-90",
        "published": "2026-09-03T10:37:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/japanese-scientist-shirakawa-co-winner-of-2000-nobel-prize-in-5325329",
        "published": "2026-09-03T11:50:34.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Associated Press",
        "title": "Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/japanese-scientist-shirakawa-co-winner-of-2000-nobel-prize-in",
        "published": "2026-09-03T11:53:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Japan Times",
        "title": "Nobel-winning Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa dies at 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/nobel-winning-japanese-scientist-hideki-shirakawa-dies-at-90-5332383",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:22:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "NDTV",
        "title": "Japanese Scientist, Nobel Chemistry Prize Winner Hideki Shirakawa Dies At 90",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/japanese-scientist-nobel-chemistry-prize-winner-hideki-shirakawa-dies",
        "published": "2026-09-03T12:30:13.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}