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

Have you ever wondered what type of pizza lizards prefers, or if alcohol consumption inhibits bats' ability to fly?

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

Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favorite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another ...

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

Japanese scientists who painted cows with zebra stripes to keep flies at bay have been awarded a parody Nobel Prize. The 11 ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

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

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.

This year’s honorees brought us pizza-eating lizards, tipsy bats, nail growth, and more that all celebrate the joy and fun in ...

The tongue-in-cheek scientific awards also recognise research into lizard's preferred pizza and garlicky breastmilk.

Cows painted with zebra stripes can deter biting flies better, 2025 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology winners show.