“When I did this experiment I hoped that I would win the Ig Nobel. It’s my dream. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable,” said ...

Animal prints have been a part of fashion for a very long time, but 2025 is really the year they take center stage like never before. These prints are no longer just classic patterns seen here and ...

It is Japan’s 19th consecutive win at the tongue-in-cheek award, which honours research that ‘first makes people laugh, then ...

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Indian researchers Vikash Kumar and Sarthak Mittal have won the engineering prize at the 35th Ig Nobel Awards for their study on foul-smelling shoes.

Australian researchers have filmed what is believed to be the first documented instance of two male endangered leopard sharks ...

A team of researchers wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group ...

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