Upcoming Events

January 10, 2026, Saturday, 1:00 pm. 

Ig Nobel Face-to-Face, Miraikan Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan — Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather on stage to ask each other questions about their work. With Kiyoshi Furusawa and:

• Tomotaka Kojima (Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology, 2025): Research into the use of zebra-pattern painting to protect cattle from blood-sucking insects
• Yoshiaki Miyashita (Ig Nobel Prize in Nutrition, 2023): Experiment to change the taste of food using electrified chopsticks and straws)
• Kazunori Yoshizawa (Ig Nobel Prize in Biology, 2017): The discovery of an insect with reversed genitalia in males and females

and

• Takaaki Kajita (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2015): The discovery of neutrino oscillations, which indicate the existence of neutrino mass

January 17, 2026, Saturday, 3:00 pm.

Arisia, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA — Improbable Dramatic Readings (read aloud by probably dramatic readers) of very brief extracts from improbably exciting genuine published research studies, some of which have been honored with Ig Nobel Prizes. Open to all Arisia attendees. Details TBA.

February 13 , 2026, Friday, 7:00 pm

AAAS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Hyatt Regency Phoenix Hotel, in the Regency Ballroom — Improbable Research Show, with Marc Abrahams (founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes) and:

• Julie Mennella (2025 Ig Nobel Pediatrics Prize winner, for studying what a nursing baby experiences when the baby’s mother eats garlic)
• Paul Bosland (1999 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner, for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper)
• Improbable Dramatic Readings (read aloud by probably dramatic readers) of very brief extracts from surprising research studies
• Bananas

Feb 26, 2026, Thursday, 7:00 pm

Royal Society Club, London, UK — Marc Abrahams will blather (via tele-linkup) about improbable research.

April 2026

2026 Ig Nobel EuroTour —  We will add listings here as additional event plans crystallize.

• April 13, 2026, Tuesday — Berlin, GERMANY. Details TBA.
• April 17, 2026, Friday, 7:00 pm — University of Duisberg-Essen, GERMANY. Details TBA.
• April 21, 2026, Tuesday — Lund University (in cooperation with the Young Academy of Sweden), SWEDEN. Details TBA.
• April 23, 2026, Thursday, 6:00 pm — EPFL, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND. Details TBA.
• The tour will also include events in THE NETHERLANDS, ITALY, and other countries.

September 24, 2026, Thursday

The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony —  Ig Nobel Prizes will be awarded to ten new winners. Each has done something so surprising that it makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Details TBA.