Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners

Ars Technica
By Jennifer OuelletteSep 18, 2025, 6:00 pm401 ptsTop
Does alcohol enhance one's foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2025 recipients of the annual Ig…

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