{"id":97505,"date":"2026-09-04T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ig-nobel-prizes-go-to-scientists-studying-cockroach-milk-nose-blowing-buried-underwear-more\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:34:32","slug":"ig-nobel-prizes-go-to-scientists-studying-cockroach-milk-nose-blowing-buried-underwear-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ig-nobel-prizes-go-to-scientists-studying-cockroach-milk-nose-blowing-buried-underwear-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ig Nobel prizes go to scientists studying cockroach milk, nose-blowing, buried underwear, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analyzed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel prizes celebrating unusual and imaginative contributions to science. <\/p>\n<p>The awards, organized by a digital magazine called the Annals of Improbable Research, shifted to Europe after 35 years in the United States over concerns about attendees being able to get visas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/09\/04\/34969a75-5641-4d03-9542-7665c412da55\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c7088209aad1dbbffeffccf63a800ed5\/gettyimages-2292854766.jpg#\" alt=\"SWITZERLAND-SCIENCE-AWARD-IG NOBEL \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/09\/04\/34969a75-5641-4d03-9542-7665c412da55\/thumbnail\/620x413\/c7088209aad1dbbffeffccf63a800ed5\/gettyimages-2292854766.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/09\/04\/34969a75-5641-4d03-9542-7665c412da55\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/010ceb970ae25b7ceab5d43e5d9b1b0b\/gettyimages-2292854766.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Ig Nobel prize winners react on stage at the end of the award ceremony in Zurich, on Sept. 3, 2026. The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded every autumn to celebrate 10 unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Fabrice COFFRINI \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At a convention center in Zurich, Switzerland, research teams received a custom trophy resembling a cross between a mushroom and a human foot. Among them were Matilda Brindle and Stuart West from the University of Oxford and the Florida Institute of Technology&#8217;s Catherine F. Talbot, who reconstructed the evolutionary history of kissing, and the late Dr. Tokuji Unno, who investigated the science of blowing one&#8217;s nose. <\/p>\n<p>Another research team buried 1,000 pairs of underwear in more than 25 countries to study how critters in the soil helped them decompose. <\/p>\n<p>For future ceremonies, organizers plan to alternate between Zurich and other European countries. The 2027 ceremony will be held in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Previous iterations took place at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, but there are no immediate plans to return to the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country,&#8221; Marc Abrahams, master of ceremonies and editor of the magazine, told The Associated Press in an email in March. <\/p>\n<p>The Nobel Prizes, which have no relation to their cheekily named counterpart, will be announced at the start of October.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><br \/>\n    <\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ig-nobel-prizes-cockroach-milk-nose-blowing-more\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ig Nobel prizes go to scientists studying cockroach milk, nose-blowing, buried underwear, more - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ten research teams were honored at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. 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