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Marc Abrahams hosts the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes in Switzerland for the first time in the ceremony's 35-year history.

The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor research that "first make people laugh and then make them think," were held in Zurich, Switzerland, for the first time in the ceremony's 35-year history. Marc Abrahams, the founder of the awards, moved the event outside of the United States due to concerns regarding the safety of international travelers and unpredictable immigration and visa protocols. Ten research teams were honored for various scientific achievements. Matilda Brindle and her colleagues won the biomechanics prize for developing a precise definition of kissing and tracing its evolutionary history. Other winners included a team that designed a splash-free urinal, researchers who discovered that cockroach milk contains more energy than cow's milk, and a group that used mosquito proboscises as 3D printing nozzles. The ceremony featured traditional elements such as a volley of paper airplanes and a performance by Nobel laureates dressed as mushrooms. Winners received a statuette and 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.

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