The #IgNobel Prize of #Technology is awarded to a team from China, Canada, USA, Kuwait nad Egypt, for pioneering the use of mosquito proboscises as 3D printing nozzles, a process known as "necroprinting"

The #Olfaction (!) Prize is awarded to a team from Poland, Germany and Sweden, for collecting evidence that babies smell wonderful to their parents; but teenagers do not.

The #IgNobel #Physics Prize is awarded to a team from Canada, USA, China, and Saudi Arabia for their theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash free urinal

The #IgNobel prize of #Medicine is awarded to Takuji Uno for their aerodynamics study of the nose blowing

The Prize of #Biology is awarded to a Brazilian and Australian team for gently stepping on various parts of various venomous snakes repeatedly, at various temperature and various time of the day, to try to learn what does and what does not induce a venomous snake to bite a human.

The #IgNobel prize of #Biomechanics is awarded to Matilda Brindle, Catherine Talbot and Stuart West, for devising a more precise definition of kissing.

The Prize of #Economics is awarded to Paul Piff, Daniel Stancato and Stephane Cota, for finding evidence that upper class people are more likely to snatch supply children's candy and engage in unethical behaviour.

The Prize of #Chemistry is awarded to (a team) for discovering that milk proteins from viviparous cockroaches contains three times more milk proteins than cow's milk.

In a conference, how to keep speakers in their time slot ?

Giant bananas.
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The 2026 #IgNobel Prize ceremony is today! Starting at 19:00 (CEST).

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