Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner Brazilian Joao Miguel Alves-Nunes (2nd L) attends the award ceremony in Zurich, on September 3, 2026. Joao Miguel Alves-Nunes and his team were awarded for gently stepping on various parts of various venomous snakes repeatedly, at various temperatures at various times of day to try to learn what does and what does not induce a venomous snake to bite a human. The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Ig Nobel Physics Prize winners (From L) Tadd Truscott and Randy Hurd attend the award ceremony in Zurich, on September 3, 2026. Tadd Truscott, Randy Hurd and their team were awarded for theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash-free urinal. The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Ig Nobel Physics Prize winners (From L) Tadd Truscott, Zhao Pan, Kaveeshan Thurairajahand and Randy Hurd attend the award ceremony in Zurich, on September 3, 2026. The team were awarded for theoretical and experimental attempts to design a splash-free urinal. The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Canadian Associate Professor Changhong Cao (C) speaks with member of his team with a fake moskito on his shoulder during the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Zurich, on September 3, 2026. Changhong Cao was awarded with his team with the Ig Nobel Prize in technology for pioneering the use of mosquito proboscises as high-resolution 3D printing nozzles, a process called Necroprinting. The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Paulina Sepa Egas, head researcher of the Charles Darwin Foundation's Marine Collections, examines a preserved Galapagos blue octopus (Microeledone galapagensis) with forceps in a laboratory in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on September 2, 2026. The strange, golf-ball-sized specimen that dazzled the scientific community has returned to Galapagos Islands to rest at the Charles Darwin Research Station, a showcase of the planet's astonishing species. (Photo by Carlos ESPINOSA / AFP via Getty Images)

Paulina Sepa Egas, head researcher of the Charles Darwin Foundation's Marine Collections, holds a container containing a preserved Galapagos blue octopus (Microeledone galapagensis) in a laboratory in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on September 2, 2026. The strange, golf-ball-sized specimen that dazzled the scientific community has returned to Galapagos Islands to rest at the Charles Darwin Research Station, a showcase of the planet's astonishing species. (Photo by Carlos ESPINOSA / AFP via Getty Images)

Close-up of a preserved Galapagos blue octopus (Microeledone galapagensis) in a laboratory in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on September 2, 2026. The strange, golf-ball-sized specimen that dazzled the scientific community has returned to Galapagos Islands to rest at the Charles Darwin Research Station, a showcase of the planet's astonishing species. (Photo by Carlos ESPINOSA / AFP via Getty Images)

Paulina Sepa Egas, head researcher of the Charles Darwin Foundation's Marine Collections, holds a specimen package containing a preserved Galapagos blue octopus (Microeledone galapagensis) in a laboratory in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, on September 2, 2026. The strange, golf-ball-sized specimen that dazzled the scientific community has returned to Galapagos Islands to rest at the Charles Darwin Research Station, a showcase of the planet's astonishing species. (Photo by Carlos ESPINOSA / AFP via Getty Images)