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

A team of Japanese researchers has been awarded the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cows can protect them from biting flies. The award was announced at ...

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A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels The Ig Nobel Prize for ...

The annual awards, which are organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were held just a few ...

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BOSTON (AP) — A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza ...

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly bights are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels. Held less than ...