{"id":68555,"date":"2026-03-09T20:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-europe-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:01:41","slug":"ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-europe-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-europe-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific awards \u2013 which honor research that makes people laugh and then think \u2013 to move away from \u2018unsafe\u2019 US<\/p>\n<p>The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the Annals of Improbable Research, a digital magazine that highlights research that makes people laugh and then think, the 36th annual ceremony will be held in Zurich. It\u2019s usually held in the US in September, a few weeks before the actual Nobel prizes are announced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/mar\/09\/ig-nobel-prize-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific awards \u2013 which honor research that makes people laugh and then think \u2013 to move away from \u2018unsafe\u2019 US The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday. Organized by the &#8230; <a title=\"Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-europe-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}