The Ig Nobel Prizes are back and, as always, they prove that the intersection of humor and science can sometimes yield the most unexpected insights. Each year, the awards honor unusual research that ...

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

The 35th Ig Nobel prizes celebrated unusual scientific research, including Japanese biologists painting zebra stripes on cows to deter flies and lizards preferring four-cheese pizza in Togo. Other ...

The 35th edition of the annual awards, which are organised by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, were held just a few weeks before the real Nobel prizes. Here are the 10 prize ...