Japanese Doctor Miki Takahara speaks during the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Zurich, on September 3, 2026. Miki Takahara accepted the Ig Nobel Medicine prize award on behalf of late Doctor Tokuji Unno for a study called "How to Blow the Nose An Aerodynamic Study of the Nose Blowing". The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)