{"id":125400,"date":"2026-09-03T18:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125400\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:55:14","slug":"a-first-outside-the-u-s-ig-nobel-prizes-awarded-in-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/125400\/","title":{"rendered":"A First Outside the U.S.: Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded in Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosities<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Ig Nobel Prizes have always been awarded in the United States. (File photo)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/38397215-5a35-4820-bf7a-acfab7eb1e2b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-dark-gray text-small mt-2\">The Ig Nobel Prizes have always been awarded in the United States. (File photo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-gray text-smaller mt-1 [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-b [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-aluminum [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:pb-1\">Keystone<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-stacked-spacing a-paragraph a-paragraph--lead text-h4 leading-26 md:leading-28 text-navy p-4 pb-8 md:px-0 md:pt-8\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">From the energy content of cockroach milk to smelly teenagers and splash-free urinals: Ten scientific studies designed to \u201cmake you laugh first and then think\u201d have been honored with \u201cIg Nobel Prizes\u201d in Zurich.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Keystone-SDA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-full w-full rounded-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/bluewin-prod-sc-images.imgix.net\/2026\/04\/07\/8f8bf2bc-2db8-4d30-a567-72697f869653.heif?w=96&amp;auto=format&amp;s=07db0ac73ee5d1f68cd7a05910f2bdf5\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-names text-navy text-small\">Keystone-SDA<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mr-1 h-3 w-3\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.bluewin.ch\/_next\/static\/media\/021-clock.24ldz2iukf4_m.svg?w=32\"\/>Today at 19:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">For the first time in the award&#8217;s 35-year history, the ceremony took place outside the United States on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">Among the award-winning works is a study on cockroach milk: According to the study, proteins from the milk of a certain species of cockroach provide three times as much energy as cow&#8217;s milk proteins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">Also honored: design plans for splash-free urinals, a biological definition of kissing, rich people who take candy away from children, the aerodynamics of blowing your nose, snake bite tests, mosquito proboscis as 3D printer nozzles, and our preference for friends who are mean to our enemies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">Swiss researchers also received an award: Marcel van der Heijden and Franz Bender won a prize for an experiment in which underwear was buried to assess soil health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curiosities The Ig Nobel Prizes have always been awarded in the United States. 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