From fingernail diaries to pizza-eating lizards, this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes once again celebrated research that makes people laugh before it makes them think. The 2025 ceremony, held virtually from ...

Not everyone will get to win a Nobel Prize. However, there’s the next best thing: the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights unusual scientific research that provides both laughter and insight. Here are ...

A team of Japanese researchers accepts the Ig Nobel Prize for biology. In their experiments, they found that painting cows with stripes roughly halved the number of fly bites the animals received. AP ...

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 lg Nobel ...

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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 lizards ...

The award for a scientific achievement which “first makes people laugh, then think”, was awarded in the field of chemistry to experiments which tested whether eating polytetrafluoroethylene – a form ...

Two Indian engineers who studied how foul-smelling shoes impact the use of shoe-racks are among scientists honoured with the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes for unusual achievements that draw both laughter and ...

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