Melbourne academics win Ig Nobel prize for research showing worms vibrate like water

Physicist Ivan Maksymov and applied mathematician Andriy Pototsky placed worms on subwoofer in what if' moment

Blasting a speaker to move garden worms in a regional Victorian backyard might sound more like a high school science experiment than a breakthrough in neuroscience.

What started as an exercise in curiosity of two academics from Melbourne's Swinburne University has found vibrations cause earthworms to form patterns in the same way water droplets react to vibrations.