A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly ...

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

The tongue-in-cheek scientific awards also recognise research into lizard's preferred pizza and garlicky breastmilk.

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel prizes.

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

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

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

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

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 Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly ...

Research into cooking the perfect pasta sauce, another probing the types of pizza lizards liked to eat, and a study wondering ...