Ig Nobel Prizes 2026 awarded in Zurich

The 36th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on 3 September in Zurich, for the first time outside the United States. Winners include a study showing that the milk of a cockroach species is rich in energy, a scientific definition of kissing across ants, birds, polar bears and humans, and an experiment that used 2,000 pairs of buried cotton underwear to assess soil health. Smithsonian Magazine