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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

What started as a frustrating kitchen challenge turned into award-winning science: Fabrizio Olmeda and his colleagues ...

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.