Buried Underpants and a New Definition of Kissing Win 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes
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The Ig Nobel Prizes have once again honored unusual research. The statuettes went to scientists who studied the definition of kissing, the nutritional value of cockroach "milk," evil friends, whether rich people are worse people, and how to effectively wipe your nose.
Better cars are more likely to cross the zebra crossing in front of pedestrians, and those who are rich are more likely to engage in petty fraud and lies, this year's winner of the IgNobel Prize for the funniest scientific work in economics has shown.
Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes
Chris Simms in Nature: The recognition and prestige of a Nobel prize for groundbreaking work comes with a gold medal and the equivalent of about US$1 million. The parody version, an Ig Nobel prize, devised to celebrate research that makes people laugh, and then think, might not deliver on the cash front, but it does bring considerable renown. This year’s Ig Nobel prizes were awarded on 3 September at a ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland. They inclu…
This past Thursday, September 3, the gala of the Ig Nobel was held, the ceremony that since 1991 rewards research capable of “making laugh first and thinking later”. An event that leaves no one indifferent in each [...] The entry The Ig Nobel awards the most curious studies: from milk cockroaches or buried underpants was first published in Cadena Dial.
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