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Wacky science bags top awards

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September 22, 2025

IG NOBEL: CELEBRATION OF SILLIER SIDE AT CEREMONY

Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favourite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another language: these were some of the winners at the Ig Nobel prizes, which celebrate the sillier side of science.

The 35th edition of the awards, organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were held at Boston University last Thursday.

Here are the 10 prize winners.

Painting stripes on cows

Japanese researchers won the Ig Nobel biology prize for showing that painting zebra stripes on cows meant flies were less likely to bite them.

Lizard pizza preference

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