Cows Painted Like Zebras and Pizza-Eating Lizards: The Ig Nobel Prizes Are Back
- The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 18, 2025, at Boston University to honor winners in ten categories.
- The annual event organized by the Annals of Improbable Research honors unusual but genuine scientific accomplishments that amuse audiences initially and then provoke thoughtful consideration.
- Notable awards included a Japanese team painting cows with zebra stripes to reduce fly bites, and Colombian researcher Francisco Sanchez's study showing alcohol impairs fruit bats' flight and echolocation.
- Kojima expressed great gratitude upon receiving the award, while Sanchez described their recognition as a significant honor and mentioned that bats become intoxicated in a manner similar to humans.
- The ceremony’s outcomes highlight inventive approaches to pest control and animal behavior, suggesting alternatives to chemicals and deepening scientific curiosity.
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The 35th Ig Nobel Prizes, traditionally awarded to scientists and research teams for discoveries in highly unconventional fields, were held at the end of last week. Among the winners this year was the discovery that alcohol can sometimes help with communication in a foreign language.
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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 a month before the actual Nobel Prizes are…
Alcoholized bats, garlic-loving infants and painted cows were part of the Ig Nobel Prize 2025, an annual parody of the Nobel Prize winners celebrating scientific achievements that “first make them laugh and then make them think.” Recently, at the University of Boston, its 35th edition was held, organized by the magazine Annals of Unprobable Research, these awards highlight real research, published in academic journals, which address unusual ques…
Would painting a black cow with zebra-like stripes actually attract fewer flies? It might seem like a strange question, but the Japanese research team that actually proved this fact has won this year's Nobel Prize for Eccentricity. This is reporter Hong Ran. [Reporter]
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