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

Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights ...

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

The researcher accepted his prize on stage wearing stripes and was surrounded by his fellow researchers, who harassed him ...

A Japanese research team has received the 35th Ig Nobel Prize in Biology for a study showing that painting zebra-like stripes ...

A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebralike stripes would prevent flies from biting them.

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

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

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

The Texas A&M doctoral student scanned the trail ahead as galaxies of dust spun in his headlamp’s cone of light. While two of his entomology colleagues turned over rocks to see what insects might be ...

Lora or 'Olive Ridley' sea turtles leave the sea to lay their eggs in nests at Ostional Beach, Costa Rica. The National ...