Audit Trail · Article #2179744

Science that makes you laugh? Canadian engineers win Ig Nobel Technology Prize for 3D ‘necroprinting’ with mosquitoes

Source article ↗ · The Conversation Canada · outlet lean: center-left · owner: The Conversation (academic) (non_profit)

published 2026-09-24T13:02:30 · ingested 2026-09-24T09:55:58.079020

Bias Analysis · B.I.A.S.

CENTER score: -0.20 confidence: 80% vv3

The article is factual and does not show clear bias in either direction, but the subject matter might be seen as unusual or controversial.

Trigger phrases: Science that makes you laugh?Ig Nobel Technology Prize

      computed at 2026-09-24T10:24:33.956721
    

ML Bias Signal · DistilBERT Zero-Shot (v2)

CENTER score: 0.000 confidence: 65% valhalla/distilbart-mnli-12-3

      computed at 2026-09-24T10:11:54.895226-04:00
    

Ensemble (heuristic + ML v2)

CENTER score: 0.000

Analysis Tier

Tier: quick_v1_failed+full

Tier-1 at: 2026-09-24T10:08:56.902777

Tier-2 at: 2026-09-24T10:33:59.171406

AI analyzed: ✓ at 2026-09-24T10:24:33.956721

Geographic Extraction · L.O.C.A.L.

Country: —

Province: —

Scope: unmappable

Fact-Check Claims · V.E.R.I.F.Y. (2)

unverified The team printed a honeycomb and a Canadian maple leaf, both roughly the size of a single grain of sand.

The text does not provide any source or reference for this claim. Without additional context or attribution, it is impossible to verify whether these objects were indeed printed at such a small scale by the team mentioned.

        fact_v1 · 2026-09-24T10:26:08.406547
      

unverified The team printed a honeycomb and a Canadian maple leaf, both roughly the size of a single grain of sand.

The claim does not provide any attribution or source to verify its accuracy. There is no additional context or information given that would allow us to assess the truthfulness of this statement.

        V.E.R.I.F.Y. · 2026-09-24T10:33:59.168291
      

Cross-Outlet Cluster · I.N.K.

Science that makes you laugh? Canadian engineers win Ig Nobel Technology Prize for 3D ‘necroprinting’ with mosquitoes 1 article across outlets

      clustered at 2026-09-24T09:55:58.089162
    

Governance — C.R.E.E.D.

A+

overall grade

100.0

By Category

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Fairness {'events': 3, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'below minimum volume (3 events; minimum 100 for a non-provisional score)', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Privacy {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Safety {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Transparency {'events': 0, 'grade': 'A+', 'note': 'no events recorded', 'provisional': True, 'score': 100.0}

Ethics audit by C.R.E.E.D. Institute · 3 events tracked

Raw Audit Trail (2 events)

2026-09-24T09:55:58.079020 ingested

payload

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2026-09-24T10:11:54.895226 bias_v2_scored

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