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

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

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

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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.

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