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Astroboffin gets magnets stuck up his schnozz trying and failing to invent anti-face-touching coronavirus gizmo

Encounters the ridge phenomenon: As in, there is one ‘at the bottom of my nose you can’t get past’

We’re all told from a tender age not to shove things up our noses – Lego, chickpeas, pencils, fingers – but it seems even grown-up astrophysicists can have difficulty grasping these most basic recommendations when it’s in the name of science.…