Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." The unapologetically campy awards ...

Japanese researchers won the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize for painting cows with zebra-like stripes to avoid being bitten by flies.

Scientists who studied whether painting a cow with stripes reduces fly bites and which pizza toppings various lizards prefer ...

Have you ever wondered what type of pizza lizards prefers, or if alcohol consumption inhibits bats' ability to fly?

This year's slate of Ig Nobel Prize winners include researchers who painted cows like zebras and a team who analyzed the pizza preferences of lizards.

Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favorite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another ...

Those researchers were honored in Boston with an Ig Nobel, the prize — a model of a human stomach — for comical scientific ...

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the ...

Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

Following on from last year's 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at MIT, the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize night took place at Boston University on September 18, celebrating real research ...

The annual lg Nobel Prize ceremony is organized every year by the Annals of Improbable Research, a digital magazine that ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...