Ig Nobel Chemistry prize winners Subramanian Ramaswamy, Leonard Chavas, and Nathan Coussens sing during the award ceremony in Zurich, on September 3, 2026. The team were awarded for discovering that milk proteins from vivaparous cockroaches packs three times as much energy as milk proteins from cows. 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)