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Science that makes you laugh? Canadian engineers win Ig Nobel Technology Prize for 3D ‘necroprinting’ with mosquitoes
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Each year, around 9,000 projects are nominated and one prize is awarded in each of 10 categories.
Commercial micro-nozzles below 100 microns in size are expensive, at around $80 each.
(One micron is 0.001 millimetres, so these are small.) Glass-based needles, while they can reach these smaller diameters, are difficult to manufacture consistently and are extremely brittle.
The mosquito proboscis, however, is 100 per cent organic material.
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The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize winners included a study of the aerodynamics of nose blowing, and a study finding that upper class people are more likely to snatch from a children’s supply of candy. (Unsplash/Zyanya Citlalli)
Science that makes you laugh? Canadian engineers win Ig Nobel Technology Prize for 3D ‘necroprinting’ with mosquitoes
Published: September 24, 2026 9.02am EDT
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Our research at McGill University recently won the 2026 Ig Nobel Technology Prize for demonstrating how mosquitoes can be used for high-resolution 3D printing.…
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