# Here's why you should rethink your stance on mosquitos

An episode of [The Current](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/151487761), 30 Sep 2026, 14 min.

Audio: https://mgln.ai/e/12/cbc.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_CURRENT_P/media/current/current-72BSzxeF-20260930.mp3

Mosquitos, cockroaches, venomous snakes, and adults who steal candy from children, just some of the winning scientific discoveries at this year's Ig Nobel Prize. The award highlights research so bizarre and improbable you can't help but laugh at it. We speak with winner Chonghong Cao, a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University about how his team worked with dead mosquitos and 3D printers to win the technology prize.

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