The 2026 #IgNobel Prize ceremony is today! Starting at 19:00 (CEST).
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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 from India, France, Japan and USA for discovering that milk proteins from viviparous cockroaches contains three times more milk proteins than cow's milk.
The #IgNobel Prize of #Medicine is awarded to Takuji Uno for the 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.
