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

The annual lg Nobel Prize ceremony is organized every year by the Annals of Improbable Research, a digital magazine that spotlights research that first makes people laugh and then think.The ...

Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Other prizes this year included the engineering prize for tackling the problem of smelly shoes and the physics prize for exploring the tricky dynamic of pasta alla cacio e pepe. The simple classic ...

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